On Sept. 11, 2001, two of the world’s largest buildings came crashing to the ground. Debris fell from the sky, covering entire blocks of New York City ““Â and some elementary schools. That day, 8,500 students were evacuated from schools near the World Trade Center. But for many of those students, the problems did not end […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Tiny technology hopes to make big impact
Welcome to a world where everything is smaller, faster, stronger and always reliable. In Nanoworld, the nation’s military can detect dangerous activities or substances within seconds and doctors can detect cancer long before it even appears. This is the world the Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration envisions. Defense and aerospace technology supplier Raytheon shares […]
Science can come to life for both learned scholar, curious novice
There are few who dare to cross the rift between the North and South campuses of UCLA. Students who can recite the elements of the periodic table may seldom associate with those who know Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy by heart. But just as there are authors behind literature’s greatest works, and […]
Depression poses complicated problem for many
Leaving home is a major step toward adulthood that many college students take. For some, the stresses of college can push them into an area beyond unhappiness, where nothing is possible and life becomes overwhelming. The depression these students feel can be persistent, changing the way they think and affecting their relationships with others. But […]
Briefs
Med and cancer centers named best in the West The UCLA Medical Center ranked as the best hospital in the Western United States for the 14th consecutive year and also moved up to be the third best hospital in the nation from the last year’s number five spot. Additionally, the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Center was […]
Experiment to outfit classroom with sensors
Electrical engineering Professor Mani Srivastava’s seven-year-old daughter Megha provided the initial inspiration for a research project that may provide groundbreaking results in the fields of education and computer science. Srivastava’s purchase of a wireless educational toy that allows parents to survey their child’s interactions through a PC spurred him to imagine the larger implications. Along […]
Recent cases renew attention toward conjoined twins
By Jeyling Chou BRUIN SCIENCE SENIOR STAFF jchou@media.ucla.edu Midwives refused to touch Chang and Eng Bunker on the day they were born in 1811, horrified that the twin brothers were joined at the abdomen by a single band of flesh. Chang and Eng would have been easily separated by modern surgical techniques, but the five-inch […]