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AirForU is useful for anyone who sees a hazy skyline and wonders how safe it is to breathe outside air.

With an impressive string of cited amicus briefs and appellate litigation appearances, UCLA Law faculty members are making an impact on important issues.

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

Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Homeboy Industries’ Father Greg Boyle are among those who take part in the discussion.

Law professor Mary Nichols chronicles the 20-year saga to remove the veil of smog over Los Angeles.

Girls playing certain sports or participating in cheerleading are just as susceptible to having concussions as boys.

In recent years, investigators from eight UC campuses, including UCLA, have conducted more than 330 research projects in brain injury and traumatic brain injury.

For almost a year, artist Ann Carlson has been observing and “collecting” the gestures of more than 100 students and employees at work across campus for “The Symphonic Body UCLA.”

Twenty first-year students whose education is supported by the co-creator, cast and crew of “The Big Bang Theory” recently visited the set of the CBS hit comedy series.

Discovery indicates that life may have begun shortly after the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago.

Fielding School of Public Health research touts the virtues of the open-streets program, which temporarily closes local roads to motor vehicles and encourages walking and cycling.

UCLA Anderson School of Management is hosting a monthly High-Impact Tea to discuss ideas, stories and actions for impact as part of Impact@Anderson. Come join us for a cup of tea, scones and cookies.

“Encountering Ancient Colombia — A Journey through the Magdalena Valley” seeks to question our knowledge of the ancient objects on view and to illustrate the world of precolonial Colombia.

The new cell construction extends the cell’s effective life in air by more than 10 times, with only a marginal loss of efficiency converting sunlight to electricity.

UCLA researchers found that the tiny particles can strengthen gutta percha, the material used to fill the root canal, and even deliver drugs to fight infection.

Dr. Angelica Zen’s recent honeymoon with her brand new husband, Ryan Miyakawa, will be forever memorialized in snapshots of the happy couple in Bali — and YouTube and TV news videos from all over the world.

The short conversations, educational literature and follow-up phone calls that are part of Project QUIT helped people reduce their risky drug use by a third.

Though the deformities are almost imperceptible to the human eye, the super–slow-motion flowing effect limits the maximum size of large glass screens.

“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.

Findings suggest that the industrialized world’s sleep habits do not differ much from those that humans evolved to have.

Political science professor Chris Tausanovitch argues that polarization in American society actually has not deviated much since the 1950s.

The season will include performances of “Lainie’s Cabaret at UCLA: Celebrating Frank Sinatra … 100 Years,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel.”

A Ph.D. student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Teni Adewumi is helping to raise awareness of the potential adverse health effects of certain products used at beauty salons.

Among young people with high-functioning autism, the areas of the brain linked to social behaviors are less developed and less-sufficiently networked than they are in those without autism.

Waugh, an authority on American history and lifelong baseball fan, explains how baseball has (and hasn’t) changed, why it became the national pastime and how she teaches the sport’s history.