UCLA scientists working to map brain country

Humans have charted longitude and latitude lines that stretch across the ends of the earth. There remains, however, a final frontier which has yet to be mapped: an extremely complex lump of gray matter known as the human brain. The UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center and the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at UCLA have been […]

The UCLA Office for Protection of Research Subjects is investigating the possible connection of two UCLA researchers with controversial malariotherapy HIV research being conducted in China by the Heimlich Institute. Steven Peckman, associate director of Human Research Subjects for the OPRS at UCLA, received an anonymous e-mail in early October of this year requesting an […]

Southern California's environment grade: C+

California is one of only five small regions in the world characterized by a mediterranean climate with mild, wet winters and arid summers. The unique temperate qualities of this region have led to the evolution of unique speciation in plants and animals. According to the UCLA Institute of Environment’s Southern California Environmental Report Card 2002, […]

Report gives consumers low grade on water reuse

The water drinkers of Southern California haven’t quite been making the grade. The UCLA Institute of the Environment recently published its fifth annual Southern California Environmental Report Card, which discusses water treatment and recycling, along with three other local environmental issues of concern. With a constantly increasing population and scant rainfall, the Southern California water […]

Microscopic enemies pose imminent, unpredictable threat

On March 20, 1995, five teams of men boarded trains on the Tokyo subway system. Unnoticed amid Monday morning rush-hour traffic, the men placed lunch boxes and soft-drink containers on the floors of trains. The containers were punctured with umbrellas before the men got off. Odorless, colorless and deadly, Sarin gas was released into the […]

Animation meets physical reality

Physics. The science that dictates how the planets revolve around the sun; the mysterious explanations behind the occasional embarrassing fall as we navigate our way up the steps of Bruin Walk. Experienced by every body of matter, defined by Sir Isaac Newton, and now, cleverly virtualized by UCLA computer science professor, Petros Faloutsos. Faloutsos and […]