Tag Archive for: science

Migratory songbirds’ travels disrupted by earlier springs
Spring has arrived in North America. Leaves have sprouted,…

How long is a day on Venus? Scientists crack mysteries of our closest neighbor
Venus is an enigma. It’s the planet next door and yet reveals…

Gift from Astrid and Howard Preston will Fund Renovation of UCLA’s Remote Observing Facility
The UCLA College’s Division of Physical Sciences has received…

Tribal leader Clara Pratte wins Pritzker Award for young environmental innovators
The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability presented…

Extreme rainfall projected to get more severe, frequent with warming
Across the continental United States, massive, often-devastating…

UCLA model ID’s areas that should have priority for vaccine, other COVID-19 help
To help slow the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, UCLA…

12 UCLA College scientists among world’s most influential researchers
Thirty-six UCLA scholars have been named as the world’s…

Andrea Ghez wins 2020 Nobel Prize in physics
Andrea Ghez, UCLA’s Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine…

UCLA-led team of scientists discovers why we need sleep
Prolonged sleep deprivation can lead to severe health problems…

Single-use N95 respirators can be decontaminated and used again, study finds
N95 respirators, which are widely worn by health care workers…