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The bioinformatics approach the team used to uncover the weed killer could potentially be used to find new drugs for antibacterial medicines.

A research team led by a UCLA bioengineer has created a model to predict the effectiveness of potential treatments to help the immune system.

Their method joins a semiconductor layer and a metal electrode layer without the atomic-level defects that typically occur as part of the process commonly used now.

Professor Judea Pearl writes about how the current data-crunching approach to machine learning misses an essential element of human intelligence.

A detailed view of its core may lead to the development of targeted drugs.

UCLA researchers designed Chatterbaby, which uses artificial intelligence to help determine if baby is hungry, fussy or in pain.

UCLA’s Sarah T. Roberts spoke with the executive about how the world’s largest social media platform balances free expression with creating a safe community for all.

In this Q&A about “The Book of Why,” UCLA’s Judea Pearl shares how understanding causality plays a vital role in developing artificial intelligence.

The nonsurgical technique, developed by a UCLA-led team, allows them to turn doorknobs and open water bottles for the first time in years.

Sarah T. Roberts, who has pioneered the study of screening user-generated internet content, joins 30 other fellows from across the nation.

The technique that uses cryo-electron microscopy should help scientists better understand disease-causing proteins.

Bruin Code Summer Academy will offer 30 students from Mann UCLA Community School an opportunity to learn programming.

The studies found a link between risk-related terms that Google and Twitter users researched or tweeted about and subsequent syphilis trends that were reported to the CDC.

The new method will improve the ability to identify genetic changes most likely to harm cells and contribute to disease.

The advance could help bring high-quality medical diagnostics into resource-poor regions, where people otherwise do not have access to high-end technology.

Working to upend one of the most stalwart of construction materials, a team of UCLA researchers created a near carbon dioxide-neutral version of concrete.

The statistical analysis software the researchers have designed is more precise and reliable than previous methods.

Housed inside the California NanoSystems Institute, Magnify helps startups succeed by providing access to equipment and entrepreneurial networking.

These “superlattices” could lead to improved and new classes of electronics, from transistors to LEDs.

UCLA professor of musicology David MacFadyen is a champion of blockchain and how it could influence the future study and scholarship in arts and literature.

Hong shares what it was like to run a leg in the torch relay for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the future of robot athletics.

UCLA’s Jane Margolis and Julie Flapan use research to help policymakers devise equitable and effective strategies to scale up diversity in computer science.

Researchers from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation create a guide for making parks more user-friendly and sustainable.

Q&A with UCLA’s Sarah T. Roberts about seeing the subject of her work — the study of people who keep the internet “clean” — on screen in “The Cleaners.”

A UCLA digital artist and neuroscientist collaborated to create a performance art installation in which participants explore unspoken, visual communication.