Science + Technology

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.

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.

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.

Richard F. Heck, a UCLA alumnus who captured the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry, died Friday in Manila after suffering for years from a number of illnesses, including prostate cancer and diabetes. He was 84.

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

Study by UCLA-led international team restores consensus after controversial 2014 paper questioned direct effects of climate change.

The particles are used in a wide range of consumer products for their ability to kill bacteria. But that benefit might be coming at a cost to the environment.

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

Cement manufacturing accounts for roughly 7 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, but scientists are determined to lessen its environmental impact.

Christine Borgman studies how research information is retrieved, processed, curated and conveyed. So she's in the right place at the right time.

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.

Professor John Villasenor writes on Slate that the cyberattackers would bear primary responsibility but manufacturers and car owners could face some liability, too.

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

Method combines the chemotherapy drug decitabine with adoptive cell transfer, in which a patient’s own immune cells are reprogrammed to target brain cancer.

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.

The researchers reproduced the low-density conditions of space to help reveal how strongly dark energy interacts with normal matter.

A planet 100 light-years away that resembles a young Jupiter has been discovered by an international team of astronomers that includes six UCLA scientists.

Fuel cells and hydrogen batteries are already important sources of green energy, but further advances will require scientists and engineers to better understand how the technologies work.

UCLA Engineering has joined with a Korean youth organization to establish the program, which will focus on addressing malaria and other global health challenges.

Researchers from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability call for a federal ban on salamander imports to prevent a deadly pathogen from coming here.

Staff meteorologist James Murakami has been forecasting the weather for Westwood and the surrounding region for 33 years.

Catalina eddy? June gloom? Santa Ana winds? UCLA staff meteorologist James Murakami defines common Southern California weather terms.