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Young people, watching more media, want it relatable | Los Angeles Times

And about 78% said they “at least sometimes” watch movies and shows via YouTube, TikTok or other social platforms, according to the annual Teens and Screens report from the Center for Scholars and Storytellers in UCLA’s department of psychology. (UCLA’s Yalda T. Uhls was quoted. Also: TheWrap, Variety and Deadline.)

The cons of blanket cellphone bans in schools | Bay Area News Group

As schools across California prepare to limit students’ cellphone use during the school day by July 2026, new research by the University of California, Los Angeles, cautions school leaders that completely banning phones on school grounds can cause more harm than good and deepen existing inequities among students … [UCLA’s] Kathy Do, lead author of the brief, said the goal was to give educators and families access to the latest research on the effects of student phone use and help schools design fair and effective policies around cellphone use on campus.

UCLA scientists developing pancreatic cancer drug | KABC-TV

UCLA scientist Evan Abt is trying to unlock the way pancreatic cells trick the body’s immune system into not seeing them. “We’re essentially trying to take down the defenses of the tumor cells,” [said Abt.] He and his team are developing a drug to unmask the cancer cells and rev up the immune response.  

3 cases of new mpox strain reported in California | NPR’s “Morning Edition”

Anne Rimoin, an mpox researcher at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, says it’s true, this strain has been associated with more severe cases and higher mortality. “Although when we see this, it’s been particularly in low-resource settings, like in Central Africa, where I’ve been working for the last decades.” [said Rimon.] (approx. 1:20 mark).  

Google’s quantum computer makes a big technical leap | New York Times

“It’s a meaningful technological advance,” said Prineha Narang, a professor of physical sciences and electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We have heard a lot about hardware advances in the field, and for a while, I worried that the algorithms would not keep up. But they have shown that this is not the case.”  

Michigan’s conversion-therapy ban to be probed | Bloomberg Law

“Even if the Supreme Court said these laws don’t violate free-speech rights, the institutions have filed the other claims as well,” said Christy Mallory, the interim executive director and legal director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.   

Mysterious interstellar object has sprouted a tendril | Futurism

“With a rotating comet nucleus … ejecta from a spot can come off with heliocentric velocity that puts it either in front of or behind the nucleus,” explained University of California, Los Angeles, planetary astronomer Michael Busch in a post on Bluesky. “It does not matter which side it starts from.”