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The violent impact with a “planetary embryo” called Theia occurred approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and colleagues report.

The Technology Fellows Program lets graduate students in the life and physical sciences learn the ins and outs of technology transfer.

UCLA Newsroom revisits some of our favorite news items from the year. Publishing resumes on Jan. 4.

The discovery could point the way toward new drugs that slow or stop the disease from spreading.

Harran was honored for building new chemical compounds that are used to drive scientific research; Black for his study of genetic regulation at the RNA level.

The study, by researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute, could be an important step in the effort to satisfy the world’s need for clean water.

The analysis is one of a series of studies led by Daniel Blumstein that address questions about wild animals’ fear responses to humans.

Jean-Luc Margot described a straightforward method that can be used to distinguish planets from other bodies like dwarf planets and minor planets.

Archaeologist Matthew Curtis was part of a team that recently discovered a skeleton that yielded the first complete ancient genome ever found in Africa.

Guests can launch a rocket, take a peek at planets outside our solar system, make a cloud in a bottle and get up close and personal with dinosaur fossils and meteorites.

UCLA research reveals the three-dimensional atomic structure of a double-stranded RNA virus and the biological nano-switch that turns on transcription.

The findings are particularly alarming for birds with smaller populations, which can’t rebound like a large population can, the researchers say.

UCLA’s Seulgi Moon and her colleagues devised a mathematical model that estimates the amount of stress bedrock is under, which will enable scientists to predict where fractures may occur.

Life scientists from UCLA and other universities in the U.S. and England argue that predatory animals helped keep the population of large herbivores in check.

University of California President Janet Napolitano writes that to help ensure America’s future, scientists must serve as ambassadors to the public.

“There is so much potential for treating disease if we understand deeply how telomerase works,” said UCLA professor Juli Feigon, a senior author of the study.

New research indicates that some dinosaurs, at least, had the capacity to elevate their body temperature using heat sources in the environment, such as the sun.

The researchers suggest that universities could encourage more risk-taking in research by decoupling job security from productivity.

The advance could eventually lead to vastly improved technology for capturing solar energy.

The Sept. 22 symposium brought together 175 scientists from UCLA and beyond.

Their technique makes it possible to infer the macroscopic properties of materials based on their structural arrangements of atoms, which could guide how engineers build components for aircraft and other machines.

Researchers will use a $600,000 donation from First Solar to create “genoscape” maps of migratory bird populations.

The models predict that the area burned by Santa Ana fires will increase by 64 percent and the are burned by non-Santa Ana fires will increase by 77 percent.

Anthropologist Susan Perry has observed extraordinarily sophisticated political strategies in capuchin monkey behavior that mirror the social machinations so common in human workplaces.

The method may help lead to much smaller but more powerful linear electron-positron colliders — machines that could be used to understand the properties of nature’s fundamental building blocks.