Science + Technology

"It's like your car's airbag, which won’t be deployed unless you really need it," UCLA's Alexander Hoffman said of the specialized immune cells, which use a built-in feedback system to determine which threats are real and which aren't.

Amy Rowat, an assistant professor in UCLA's Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, believes food can be a powerful way to communicate science to a broad audience.

A UCLA research team has developed a new class of materials that could lead to more energy-efficient and "greener" electronic devices.

Identifying enzyme catalysts that improve the speed and efficiency of the drug-production process can be a major boon. Figuring out exactly why a particular enzyme works so well, UCLA researchers say, is an altogether different quest.

Approximately 600 students will be presenting their research in the humanities and the social, life and physical sciences.

A rolling water treatment plant designed by UCLA researchers made a pit stop on campus this week before heading north to the San Joaquin Valley, where it will help address California’s inadequate water supply.

Judea Pearl, a UCLA faculty member since 1969, was honored for his 'distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Phony laughter, unlike the real thing, is unique to humans, says Greg Bryant, who is studying the acoustic properties that differentiate the two types of cachinnation.

A device and manufacturing process created by UCLA researchers could lead to a significant leap in the quality of images on smartphones, computer displays, TVs and inkjet printers.

With two deans and six additional faculty members elected, UCLA is home to more 2014 fellows than any other public university in the country.

The workshop will address how data analysis based on sophisticated mathematics is reshaping political campaigns.

Arieh Warshel, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will present a chemistry seminar Monday, April 21.

UCLA scientists found that not only have male coquis become smaller, but their mating call has also become shorter and higher pitched; the researchers attribute the change to Puerto Rico's warmer temperatures.

The UCLA researchers' findings counter years of conventional wisdom that a biosensor can be made more sensitive simply by reducing the diameter of the nanowires that make up the device.

Discovery of hydrogen-rich apatite in lunar rocks seemed to hint that the moon's past was more watery. Think again, says UCLA's Jeremy Boyce.

UCLA life scientist Amy Rowat's tasty springtime demonstrations seek to advance the public's understanding of science through food, and food through science.

In an interview, UCLA Physics Professor David Saltzberg shares what it’s like working as thescience consultant on the hit CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”

An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has managed to find new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his no-nonsense organic chemistry class.

The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.

More than 4,000 UCLA researchers, staff and student lab personnel picked up lab coats, eyewear and other protective gear during a weeklong event in the Pauley Pavilion Club Room.

UCLA engineering professor Yoram Cohen's Gray2Blue system cleans up a home's gray water for reuse in irrigating the garden. It could save Californians billions of gallons of clean water every day.

Large detectors could potentially see a dark matter signal in the next few years, said UCLA's David Cline, who organizes the biennial conference.

The crumbling asteroid has now divided into as many as 10 pieces, the Hubble telescope has revealed, and scientists say its breakup may be due to the effect of sunlight.

Ever wonder why your laptop gest so warm when you use it? It's wasted energy. But with new magenetic materials, scientists are hoping to save that energy and keep your devices cool as a cucumber.

The researchers, the first to discover the combination of mechanisms that formed the Pacific Plate, used seismic tomography to detect variations in the speed of seismic waves inside the Earth.