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Researchers developed a thermal imaging technique that can “see” how the temperature changes from point to point inside the smallest electronic circuits.

A new study by UCLA researchers found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brain’s gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons.

The Department of Education’s college rating system could hurt universities that enroll large numbers of students who plan to graduate from other institutions.

Study found that paramedics can give intravenous medications to stroke patients within the “golden hour,” the window during which treatments are most likely to help patients avoid long-term neurological damage.

Research at UCLA played key role in developing the treatment, which could signal a new strategy for arresting tumor growth and extending the time before cancer worsens.

Darwin’s writings focused much more on species that had changed over time than on those that hadn’t. So how do scientists explain a species living for so long without evolving?

A team led by engineers from UCLA and Columbia University controlled light at tiny lengths around 500 nanometers — smaller than the light’s own wavelength — by using random crystal lattice structures.

The number of cities across the globe that experience heat waves has increased since the 1970s — as has the frequency of those heat waves — as the heat island effect amplifies global warming.

A team of life scientists has found part of the answer: The amount and intensity of striping in different zebra populations can be best predicted by temperature.

Genes relating to immune function and histone methylation — molecular changes that alter DNA expression — are risk factors.

Job growth, increased consumer confidence will fuel construction demand for commercial office space, multifamily housing projects and additional industrial warehousing space through 2017 in six major California markets.

UCLA researchers found that giving oxytocin to mice with autism-like symptoms restored their normal social behavior.

The study showed that children’s readiness for kindergarten was influenced not only by whether they attend preschool, but also by their families’ behaviors, attitudes and values.

The team, which will begin ground operations in early 2015, hopes the study will provide new insights into preventing osteoporosis and regrowing bone.

A paper published in JAMA Neurology by Dr. Brent Fogel, UCLA assistant professor of neurology, was cited as a “Best Advances of 2014” by the editorial advisory board of Neurology Today.

The discovery by scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center paves the way for the development of more effective patient-tailored therapies.

Alexander Hoffmann and Douglas Black, UCLA professors of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, have been awarded a three-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on the immune system’s response to pathogens.

Why do some people develop PTSD while others who suffered the same ordeal do not? A UCLA discovery may shed light on the answer.

People with a deficiency of the iron-regulating hormone hepcidin are especially vulnerable to Vibrio vulnificus, but research shows a medical form of the hormone can cure the infection.

Off-label prescriptions of medications and medical devices can be beneficial, but without rigorous study it is difficult to know what works and what doesn’t.

UCLA researchers found that although Prozac and Lexapro were thought to work the same way, the medications did not produce the same long-term changes in anxiety behavior.

The scientists resolved a dispute over whether a small population of black-headed squirrel monkeys, which are found only in an isolated part of Brazil, is a sub-species of another species or its own species.

Less than a third of parents reported that their child wore a hat or sunglasses or attempted to seek shade when exposed to the sun.

A team led by researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute developed a new method for extracting and analyzing cancer cells circulating in patients’ blood.

A new UCLA-led study illuminates a vast network of little understood rivers and streams flowing on top of Greenland’s ice sheet.