Category Archives: Science & Health

In the past decade, an epidemic has been ballooning among American consumers. Now it is too big to ignore. Obesity is on the verge of becoming the top killer in the United States, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is second only to tobacco. Billions of dollars are spent on weight-loss […]

Images of Jesus flitted across the screen as speakers prepared for the debate sponsored by the Veritas Forum on Wednesday night ““ a national student organization that travels to universities to discuss issues relating to religion. The Ackerman Grand Ballroom nearly was filled to capacity to watch Jesus as a surfer in a loin cloth, […]

Dr. Jay Cavanaugh’s first dose of marijuana was given to him by his mother ““ who had obtained it through a member of her bridge club. Clearly not your usual drug trade. In 1995, Cavanaugh lost the use of both arms because of a nerve disorder. He was literally wasting away, going from 180 pounds […]

Marijuana is illegal in the United States, but that does not stop UCLA students from celebrating 4/20 today, the unofficial marijuana user’s holiday. April 20 has fallen on the weekend in the past few years, giving people more of a reason to celebrate at home instead of on campus. This year, because it occurs in […]

UCLA E-Week features events, activities, Idol The Engineering Society of UCLA and engineering student groups will be holding events for the annual UCLA Engineers Week this week. Today’s activities will be held in the Court of Sciences from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and include LEGO car races, balloon tosses and concrete bowling. Engineering students […]

Humans and finches may be birds of a feather when it comes to learning how to speak and sing. According to UCLA researchers, similarities between how humans learn to speak and songbirds learn to sing may be rooted in shared genes. The researchers reported in the March 31 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience that […]

A bottle of Lysol can’t make a dent in the bacterial colonies teeming in trillions of numbers around us, on us and even in us. The ability of bacteria to exist in practically every imaginable environment on Earth makes them an integral part of life and a necessity we cannot wash away. In fact, eliminating […]