Author Archives: Harold Lee

Nearly 10 years after a sheep named Dolly took her first steps, scientists in South Korea have proven that the controversial procedure of cloning is possible in human embryos. Scientists from Seoul National University announced they had cloned and harvested stem cells from 30 human embryos on Feb. 12. In the interest of therapeutic science, […]

Eggs cocooned in tape and paper cups were dropped from the top of Boelter Hall with resounding thuds, courtesy of high school students from across Los Angeles who visited UCLA on Friday. The students did not come just to drop eggs, but also to attend Higher Learning Day, put on through the joint effort of […]

The U.S. Department of Defense explored an option that would allow citizens overseas to vote online for the upcoming presidential election, but the project was abandoned last Friday. The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment was intended to allow military personnel and civilians who are living abroad to vote in the presidential primaries and the […]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is planning to establish a network of hydrogen fueling stations throughout California by the end of the decade. His plan, known as Hydrogen Highways, would set up 200 fuel stations, each spaced 20 miles apart, along major highways by 2010. Though California is currently in a budget crisis, Hydrogen Highways may be […]

The Internet, the small network of computers that became a World Wide Web, celebrates its 35th birthday this year. UCLA, in conjunction with Stanford University, UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah, began constructing the Internet’s first incarnation for the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1969. Computers, called Interface Message Processors, […]

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, was first found in British cattle in 1986. Now, almost 20 years later, BSE has been found in U.S. cattle. On Dec. 23, 2003, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that an infected cow had been identified in the state of Washington. By that date, meat from the […]