Science + Technology

The aerogel stood up to sudden and extreme temperature spikes between minus 198 degrees Celsius and 900 degrees above zero over just a few seconds.

Jacobsen specializes in plant epigenetics — the study of how a gene’s function can change without changes to the DNA sequence.

Only a dozen such quakes have been identified in the past two decades, according to Lingsen Meng, UCLA’s Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Professor of Physics and Geophysics.

Vladimir Vassiliev, professor of physics and astronomy, has served as principal investigator on project that could help address questions in very-high-energy astrophysics.

Changes in RNA editing play an important role in the disorder, scientists find.

UCLA researchers already are working with a bicycle manufacturer on prototype frames that would use the alloy.

At the heart of the dispute is the Hubble constant, a number that relates distances to the redshifts of galaxies — the amount that light is stretched as it travels to Earth.

In a ‘game-changing’ finding, researchers found that bone mass increased 800% after signals were blocked in the brains of mice.

UCLA professor talks about how the event promotes software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields, while increasing accessibility for all.

25 years after Northridge, civil and environmental engineers are using artificial intelligence, machine learning, sensor networks and advances in mapping in their work.

Teachers receive free directions, lesson plans and instructional videos for experiments on climate, oceans and atmosphere.

Five experiments by UCLA psychologists demonstrate the severe limitations of ‘deep learning’ machines.

The framework takes images from a simple, inexpensive microscope and produces images that mimic those from more advanced and expensive ones.

To help the new system “learn” more like people do, the engineers immersed it in an internet replica of the real world.

“The platform is like a motion detector for the microscopic world because of its ability to lock onto any moving objects in a fluid sample,” said Yibo Zhang, a UCLA doctoral student and the study’s first author.

A preview of the paper that was posted on the website ChemRxiv was downloaded 19,000 times in 24 hours, shattering the site’s previous record of 15,000 downloads in six months.

Advances in genetics and computing helped biologist Tom Smith determine why seedcrackers’ bills vary in size.

The life scientists have provided the first cell “atlas” of the hippocampus — the part of the brain that helps regulate learning and memory — when it is affected by traumatic brain injury.

The event featured technology journalists Katie Benner, Nellie Bowles, Sheera Frenkel and Farhad Manjoo.

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck featured Sarah T. Roberts in “The Cleaners” — their movie about the anonymous people who screen objectionable content on social media.

The Los Angeles Seafood Monitoring Project is seeking to reduce sushi fraud and the mislabeling of fish.

UCLA researchers invented a portable device that uses holograms and machine learning to measure bioaerosols from living organisms like plants or mold.

The $3.7 million, three-year grant will go toward research aimed to develop imaging technology that allows the recording of tens of thousands of neurons to better understand how the brain goes awry in disease.

The new imaging technique may lead to improved functionality of devices such as personal computers and smartphones.

When injected into mice that had acute myeloid leukemia, the combination therapy halted the disease from developing any further.