Science + Technology

There have been many wrongful criminal convictions where the use of faulty forensic science evidence was a major culprit in producing injustice.

Teams of UCLA students, staff and faculty who have created clever, first-of-their-kind software and applications that use the latest technologies to help solve problems unveiled the result of thousands of hours of hard work Thursday at a campus conference.

The team, led by a UCLA researcher, used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to gather data on Comet 332P as it broke apart 67 million miles from Earth.

A fluid that behaves similarly to water in our day-to-day lives becomes as heavy as honey when trapped in a nanocage.

The least developed human embryonic stem cells, or “naïve” pluripotent stem cells, consume more sugar than “primed” pluripotent stem cells, which are embryonic stem cells from later in development, researchers have discovered.

Craig Merlic, an associate professor of chemistry at UCLA, has been committed to laboratory safety for three decades. He serves as the executive director of the UC Center for Laboratory Safety.

Reconnaissance group leaves Saturday to investigate geotechnical and geological aspects of the destructive quake sequence in August.

The technique involved amplifying a protein signal without using enzymes, which takes the process from two to four hours down to 10 minutes.

New research demonstrates that ions subjected to buffer gas cooling never truly cool down to the temperature of the surrounding gas.

The findings are a major step toward confirming an unusual theory of how some cancer cells metastasize, and the study could lead to new strategies for keeping melanoma from spreading.

The test, developed by UCLA researchers, could also be used to identify biomarkers for cancer and infectious diseases.

More than 300 technology leaders, innovators, policymakers, journalists and academics will gather Friday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Club to share their ideas on closing the gender and diversity gap in the technology sector.

The new head of the Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research, and of Westwood Technology Transfer, was previously with Israel’s Weizman Institute of Science.

The internet itself is neither good nor bad, says Werner Herzog, director of “Lo and Behold,” a new documentary on the communication revolution.

UCLA professor Blaire Van Valkenburgh said the animals in question “are all that is left of a once much more diverse megafauna that populated the planet only 12,000 years ago.”

Kristina Louie, a UCLA postdoctoral student who suddenly and tragically died in 2004 after receiving her Ph.D.

COSMOS-1908 is 12 billion light years away, which is “by far” the most distant galaxy scientists have accurately measured oxygen abundance in.

Twenty-eight outstanding undergraduates from across the country are spending eight weeks at UCLA, learning the latest data analysis techniques and skills that are transforming the biosciences.

A team of scientists including researchers from UCLA has developed an RNA sequencing technique that could advance scientists’ use of stem cells in regenerative medicine.

Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have discovered that a certain metabolic molecule helps pluripotent stem cells mature faster.

UCLA biologists have found genetic evidence that supports keeping the gray wolf protected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which might rule this fall to remove it from the endangered list.

The UCLA-designed platform uses holographic imaging to produce high-resolution images of the crystal-like objects that are the telltale signs of gout.

The research could improve scientists’ ability to understand health care, economics and the environment, and to glean much more pertinent insight from data.

The finding could help reduce the number of deaths from drug-resistant infections — currently about 700,000 each year.

Researchers have identified mechanisms that determine how the deadliest form of skin cancer can become resistant to immune checkpoint inhibitors, which could lead to the development of new treatments.