News Releases

The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.

The fifth installment of the annual conference will be held at UCLA on April 4 and will feature panelists from industry and academia discussing the forces shaping TV production and consumption in the 21st century.

New UCLA research suggests that it's greater muscle mass -- not a good body mass index -- that makes older Americans less likely to die prematurely.

The researchers used an innovative technique called clumped isotope thermometry to help determine temperature patterns dating to the last ice age, 20,000 years ago.

More than 10 years after the battle began with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, clinicians are still grappling with how to treat and prevent it.

In the magazine's 2015 rankings, more than two dozen UCLA schools and programs were rated among the top in the U.S., reflecting the campus's broad academic excellence.

UCLA researchers have confirmed the spider-like metastatic activity of melanoma cells outside the bloodstream and shown that ultraviolet radiation makes them more efficient and deadly.

Large detectors could potentially see a dark matter signal in the next few years, said UCLA's David Cline, who organizes the biennial conference.

The exhibtion examines the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between individuals and communities in Africa and the land on which they live.

The campus also maintained its status as one of the world's top 10 schools overall in the London Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.

The crumbling asteroid has now divided into as many as 10 pieces, the Hubble telescope has revealed, and scientists say its breakup may be due to the effect of sunlight.

While three-quarters of students were admitted to their first-choice college in 2013, the number who actually enrolled at their preferred school hit an all-time low, as economics swayed their decisions.

The former secretary of state offered her observations about the turmoil in Ukraine and offered advice to UCLA students about how they could help reinvent the U.S. economy for the 21st century.

Ever wonder why your laptop gest so warm when you use it? It's wasted energy. But with new magenetic materials, scientists are hoping to save that energy and keep your devices cool as a cucumber.

The UCLA alumnus will also receive UCLA's highest honor, the UCLA Medal, which previously has been awarded to such luminaries President Bill Clinton, basketball coach John Wooden, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and UCLA alumna and astronaut Anna Lee Fisher.

The researchers, the first to discover the combination of mechanisms that formed the Pacific Plate, used seismic tomography to detect variations in the speed of seismic waves inside the Earth.

Eric Jager's newest nonfiction thriller, "Blood Royal," looks at the brutal murder of King Charles VI's brother, the Duke of Orleans, in Paris in the midst of the Hundred Years' War.

Even those who had smoked for only a short time showed thinning of the insula, a part of the brain involved in monitoring internal states and making decisions.

The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the use of lymphatic mapping and sentinel-node biopsy have been a significant advance in the treatment of melanoma.

Higher temperatures and less rain are likely to lead to more infections in humans in the future, with the disease spreading north into previously unaffected areas as a result of climate change.

The custom graphene coating contains components that generate clot-preventing molecules, which mimic the function of blood vessels.

The findings of a new UCLA-led study could lead to a cost-effective way to make antivirals safer, which is particularly important in resource-poor countries where deadly viruses run rampant.

Light-activated drug delivery holds promise for treating cancer because it give doctors control over precisely when and where in the body drugs are released.

Using a robotic surgical technique to excise the prostate appears to improve cancer-cell removal and reduce the need for additional post-surgery cancer therapies.

With more seniors struggling to support extended families, sensible adjustments to national poverty guidelines could give them much-needed support, researchers say.