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- A visit from a social robot improves hospitalized children’s outlook https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/social-robot-improves-hospitalized-children-outlook 46 comments
- Orb-weaving spiders fight less, in colonies with more females of the species https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/male-spiders-fight-less-female-dominated-colonies 3 comments science
- Antarctic sea ice level could reach record low in 2022, according to UCLA climate scientists https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/antarctic-sea-ice-possible-record-low-2022 8 comments science
- UCLA astronomers discover more than 300 possible new exoplanets. Among their most noteworthy findings is a planetary system that comprises a star and at least two gas giant planets; it’s rare to find gas giants—like Saturn in our own solar system—as close to their host star as they were in this case https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/astronomers-discover-300-new-exoplanets-gas-giants 2 comments science
- Conservatives’ sensitivity to pandemic threat suppressed by distrust of science, media. Conservative Republicans and independents were influenced by high-profile individuals who downplayed the severity of the virus and undermined reliable information sources https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/conservatives-sensitivity-to-pandemic-threat-suppressed-by-distrust-of-science-media 140 comments science
- Capturing carbon dioxide and turning it into commercial products, such as fuels or construction materials, could become a new global industry http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/carbon-dioxide-capture-use-big-business 50 comments science
- Initiating stroke treatment just 15 minutes faster can save lives and prevent disability, according to a new UCLA-led study http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/treating-stroke-15-minutes-earlier 11 comments science
- For the first time, researchers at UCLA have shown a causal link between print media coverage of U.S. gun control policy in the wake of mass shooting events and increases in firearm acquisition, particularly in states with the least restrictive gun laws http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/news-coverage-of-gun-control-policy-linked-to-increase-in-gun-purchases 29 comments science
- UCLA study shows tumors are not as addicted to glucose as previously thought http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/tumors-not-addicted-to-glucose-ucla-study 5 comments science
- An app developed by UCLA researchers helps hearing-impaired parents know when and why their baby is crying using AI to help determine if baby is hungry, fussy or in pain. Audio samples of more than 2,000 infant cries were used to build and test algorithms that translate cries into three categories. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/app-helps-hearing-impaired-parents-know-when-and-why-their-baby-is-crying 7 comments science
- Study confirms prenatal exposure to Zika is linked to cardiac defects in infants. UCLA researchers have found evidence that infants with laboratory confirmation of Zika exposure before birth have a higher prevalence of major cardiac defects compared to infants who were not exposed to the virus. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/first-study-demonstrating-that-laboratory-confirmed-maternal-zika-infection-during-pregnancy-causes-heart-defects-in-young-infants 3 comments science
- UCLA engineer develops 3D printer that can create complex biological tissues - Device could help advance regenerative medicine http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-engineer-3d-printer-complex-biological-tissues 3 comments technology
- UCLA biologists report they have transferred a memory from one marine snail to another, creating an artificial memory, by injecting RNA from one to another. This research could lead to new ways to lessen the trauma of painful memories with RNA and to restore lost memories. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-biologists-transfer-a-memory?utm_campaign=ucomm&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=news&sf189525582=1 11 comments science
- Researchers create molecule that could ‘kick and kill’ HIV http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/researchers-create-molecule-that-could-kick-and-kill-hiv 3 comments science
- Neuroscientists at UCLA have discovered precisely where and how to electrically stimulate the human brain to enhance people’s recollection of distinct memories. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-neuroscientists-use-weak-electrical-signal-stimulate-human-brain-improve-memory 173 comments science
- A team of astronomers has identified a comet 1.5 billion miles from the sun. No other comet heading toward our sun has ever been seen at such a great distance. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/team-led-by-ucla-astrophysicist-observes-primitive-comet-1-5-billion-miles-from-the-sun 5 comments science
- Astronomers find that the sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface. The most likely explanation is that this core rotation is left over from the period when the sun formed, some 4.6 billion years ago, before the the solar wind likely slowed the rotation of the outer part of the sun. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/astronomers-report-new-measurements-of-the-suns-core-which-has-a-temperature-of-29-million-degrees-fahrenheit 65 comments science
- Astronomers find that the sun's core rotates four times faster than its surface - Scientists had assumed the core was rotating at about the same speed as the surface, but this surprising observation might reveal what the sun was like when it formed. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/astronomers-report-new-measurements-of-the-suns-core-which-has-a-temperature-of-29-million-degrees-fahrenheit 4 comments space
- UCLA scientists use ultrasound to jump-start a man’s brain after coma http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-scientists-use-ultrasound-to-jump-start-a-mans-brain-after-coma 3 comments science
- A planet 1,200 light-years away is a good prospect for a habitable world http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/planet-1-200-light-years-away-good-prospect-for-habitable-world 3 comments space
- The GOP has a feminine face, UCLA study finds http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/the-gop-has-a-feminine-face-finds-238867 8 comments science
- Opponents of same-sex marriage tend to believe gay men and women are more sexually promiscuous, which they fear could threaten their own marriage. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/why-people-oppose-same-sex-marriage 57 comments science
- Antarctica could be headed for major meltdown: UCLA geochemist finds striking similarities between climate change patterns today and millions of years ago http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/antarctica-could-be-headed-for-major-meltdown 4 comments science
- University of California: Earth might have a planetary embryo inside it from a head-on collision with Theia, 4.5 billion years ago. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/moon-was-produced-by-a-head-on-collision-between-earth-and-a-forming-planet 12 comments science
- Body Mass Index, a ratio of a person’s height and weight, has effectively become a proxy for whether a person is considered healthy. But a new study has found that using BMI to gauge health incorrectly labels more than 54 million Americans as “unhealthy,” even though they are not. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/dont-use-body-mass-index-to-determine-whether-people-are-healthy-ucla-led-study-says 20 comments science
- Dog domestication may have increased harmful genetic changes http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/dog-domestication-may-have-increased-harmful-genetic-changes-ucla-biologists-report 9 comments science
- Scientists use nanoparticles to shut down mechanism that drives cancer growth. "shutting down Twist expression enabled cancer cells to overcome their resistance to cancer drugs" http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-and-city-of-hope-scientists-use-nanoparticles-to-shut-down-mechanism-that-drives-cancer-growth 21 comments worldnews
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar undergoes coronary bypass surgery; expected to make full recovery http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/kareem-abdul-jabbar-undergoes-coronary-bypass-surgery 4 comments nba
- In our digital world, are young people losing the ability to read emotions?: Children’s social skills may be declining as they have less time for face-to-face interaction due to their increased use of digital media, according to a psychology study http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/in-our-digital-world-are-young-people-losing-the-ability-to-read-emotions 18 comments science
- Scientists reveal why life got big in the Earth's early oceans http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/prn-scientists-reveal-why-life-got-249899.aspx 4 comments science
- A Constitutional Right to Health Care: Many Countries Have it, but Not the US—Uruguay has it. So does Latvia, & Senegal. In fact, over 1/2 of the world's countries have some degree of a guaranteed, specific right to public health & medical care for their citizens in their constitutions. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/a-constitutional-right-to-health-247449.aspx 297 comments politics
- How the brain creates the 'buzz' that helps ideas spread: UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first time the brain regions associated with the successful spread of ideas, often called "buzz." http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/how-the-brain-creates-buzz-247204.aspx 3 comments cogsci
- No Snow for the Angels http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-climate-study-predicts-dramatic-246820.aspx 3 comments science
- When the brain's primary "learning center" is damaged, complex new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, say life scientists from UCLA and Australia who have pinpointed the regions of the brain involved in creating those alternate pathways — often far from the damaged site http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/brain-re-wires-itself-after-damage-246049.aspx 6 comments science
- glucose deprivation in cancer cells causes destructive negative feedback loop that kills cancer cells http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/researchers-discover-that-glucose-235478.aspx 55 comments science
- UCLA study: 18 of 20 major media outlets lean left of center. (2005) http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/media-bias-is-real-finds-ucla-6664.aspx?relnum=6664 50 comments politics
- UCLA scientists accurately predict age using just a saliva sample http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-scientists-accurately-predict-208365.aspx 51 comments science
- Real Madrid to practice at UCLA in August! http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/real-madrid-spanish-soccer-team-165547.aspx 12 comments soccer
- Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited. Genes determine brain’s processing speed more than “was previously though.” - UCLA Newsroom http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/more-proof-that-intelligence-is-85134.aspx 9 comments science
- UCLA Chancellor: Incident Arose out of Policy designed to Ensure Student Safety; Cannot Make Fair Judgment From Videos http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?relnum=7521 3 comments reddit.com