Photograph of homeless tent encampment.

L.A. could better target homeless prevention services with predictive analytics

Each year, 2 million single adults receive housing, health,…

Chronic opioid treatment may raise risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, study finds

While opioids are often prescribed to treat people with trauma-related…
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New NASA image provides more details about first observed interstellar comet

A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope provides…
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Meet UCLA Student Researcher Julia Nakamura

Meet fourth-year UCLA student researcher Julia Nakamura! Julia…
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One of California’s iconic tree species offers lessons for conservation

  With increasing regularity, Californians are witnessing…

UCLA Opens World’s 1st Institute To Study Kindness

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Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044

It’s hard to imagine the Arctic without sea ice. But…
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Activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim wins Pritzker Award for young environmental innovators

The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability presented…
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UCLA political scientists launch one of largest-ever public opinion surveys for run-up to 2020

As the nation heads into another contentious presidential campaign,…

UCLA astronomer gets best look at first comet from outside our solar system

David Jewitt, a UCLA professor of planetary science and astronomy,…