Since doodled figures started spreading their energy drink-induced wings in television commercials, the popularity and varieties of the drinks have also soared. Red Bull, the drink that started it all, claims to improve performance and concentration, as well as stimulate the metabolism. The caffeine jolt is traditionally necessary before long drives, athletic events, or finals […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
New USDA food pyramid receives mixed reviews
Soon bread bags, cereal boxes and other food packaging materials will be changing their look. The logos, packaging material and nutrition facts will most likely be the same ““ but replacing the old, familiar food pyramid will be the new MyPyramid. Though it was hailed as the new interactive, daily personalized food guidance system, the […]
Planet gets a new image
On April 29, an international team of astronomers, one of whom is a professor at UCLA, confirmed the first image of a planet outside of our solar system. The giant planet, which is about five times the mass of Jupiter, is gravitationally bound to a brown dwarf, which is a failed star. Both objects, one […]
Public diagnosis
As students near graduation, the most important thing on their mind may understandably be how they’re going to get paid. But a worry that fewer college students have is how they’re going to get health care coverage. Most students at UCLA may have either been using the Ashe Center with the Student Health Insurance Plan […]
Ragobots scale frontier of strategy games
The wars of the future are becoming more real and closer to home than ever before … for fantasy role players and tabletop generals, that is. A team of UCLA graduate students developed a system of robots based on mobile sensor technology at UCLA’s Networked & Embedded Systems Laboratory. The project, Real Action Gaming Robots, […]
UCLA physicists have world on a string theory
String theorists at UCLA gather Wednesday mornings to talk about the world as they see it, a place so bizarre it tears common intuition to shreds. There are 11 dimensions ““ one of time and 10 of space ““ instead of the conventional four. The smallest particles that make up matter, like electrons and the […]
Seminar explores theories of time
Seventeen students and one professor meet to tackle some of the most mind-boggling contradictions and theories of time and the universe, one hour at a time. Led by physics Professor Michael Gutperle, the Fiat Lux seminar titled “What is Time?” consists of fifty minutes devoted to discussing time in the context of physics, black holes, […]