Author Archives: Idan Ivri

It can detect early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, heart disease and cancer, or even show doctors what areas of your brain are stimulated while you’re listening to music or moving your arms. It is a machine called the Positron Emission Tomography scanner, first invented in 1973 by Professor Michael Phelps, now the Chair […]

Robotic surgery has stepped out of science fiction and into reality. On Aug. 30, UCLA announced the opening of the Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology. CASIT will feature new surgical tools, simulators to train doctors, offices for corporate partners in medical technology and a control center that will receive and broadcast messages around […]

UCLA students are taking field trips to the cathedrals in Spain and into the microscopic world of molecules ““ all while sitting comfortably in their seats here on campus. The students are getting a first look at UCLA’s Visualization Portal, a virtual reality theater which uses a floor-to-ceiling spherical screen to overcome time and space. […]

A team of UCLA engineers have taken an old spray-cooling method and applied it to silicon-based transistors. The result is a new method to cool down powerful transistors like those found in electric cars, aircraft, radar stations and personal computers. Transistors work by amplifying electric current in various types of electronic devices, from household items […]

Greedy corporate executives, greedy athletes, and greedy politicians have loomed large in popular culture and the national news over the past few months. But the apparently natural human instinct to be selfish has been over-emphasized for too long, according to UCLA professor Shelley Taylor in her new book. In “The Tending Instinct: How Nurturing Is […]