Category Archives: Science & Health

Avid computer gamers may be pleased to know the countless hours they spend playing computer games can actually help them perform better in school. A study released from the Children’s Digital Media Center at UCLA found the cognitive skills developed from playing computer and video games can help people in areas of science and technology. […]

There are labs on the UCLA campus that contain vials and vials of tiny, winged creatures. They live out their entire two-week life cycle within these vials, consuming a mixture of cornmeal and sugar. They grow to reach only three millimeters, but fruit flies hold a significance for human genetics that is exponentially greater than […]

Oral pill may effectively treat PMS A UCLA study found that the physical and emotional symptoms associated with a woman’s menstrual cycle were significantly reduced in women who were taking an oral contraceptive called Yasmin. Yasmin contains a combination of drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol, which was shown in a study of nearly 700 women to […]

Fifty years ago, most people would have laughed or stared in disbelief if told that a six-foot-long double stranded molecule would revolutionize nearly every aspect of our world. Edward McCabe and his colleagues were among those not completely convinced when James Watson and Francis Crick first discovered the structure of DNA. In fact, some of […]

In 1963, I had just graduated from the University of Colorado and drove across the country to grab a student charter flight to London. While my college pals went to climb mountains on the Isle of Skye, I made a scientific pilgrimage to Cambridge ““ the discovery of the DNA structure was so profound and […]

NASA discovers date of end of the “˜Dark Ages’ and age of universe NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe has found the end of the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages started approximately half a-million years after the Big Bang, and NASA’s probe detected the end of the Dark Ages to be 200 million years after the […]

A handful of celebrities will be bagging groceries and whipping up free sample foods at the new Westwood Whole Foods Market this Wednesday. The celebrities are participating in a charity event which will send 5 percent of Wednesday’s sales to UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital. “Whole Foods does Five Percent Days quite often,” said Elizabeth Carovillano, […]