UCLA News

Sydney - U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the Office of Naval Research have developed low powered versatile robots for multiple tasks in the ocean. These things weigh 170lb and can do everything you would want a giant jellyfish to do.

A professor at Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds has discovered a binary star system comprising a pair of brown dwarf stars, just 6.5 light years from the Sun. In astronomical terms, the new system is in Earth's backyard.

Washington - The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said it has filed a suit against UCLA on behalf of a research professor who was terminated after he blew the whistle on junk environmental science and scientific misconduct at the University of California.

Sydney - Sugar can do horrible things to your brain. It effectively sabotages synapses, according to a new study. Given that the average American (That poor bastard, didn’t know he was still around) consumes 40kg of sugar per year, that’s not great news.

The Times Higher Education magazine issued its annual rankings of universities worldwide on Thursday. It placed Stanford fourth ahead of UC Berkeley, fifth. Harvard, MIT and Cambridge retained the top three positions.

Los Angeles - When you look at the winners for the Annie Awards, head right to the top award in the movie category and then you will find the Oscar front runner for Best Animated Feature.

Los Angeles - During a recent basketball game at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, the camera caught a man proposing to a woman. Things went very wrong as the lady rejected the man's proposal. Many say the video of the woman rejecting her suitor is painful to watch.

Los Angeles - Researchers at the OOBE Research Center, UCLA say they have reproduced Elijah's biblical angel encounter a total of 15 times. The researchers say their study proves that Elijah's experience was due to the phenomenon of spontaneous lucid dreaming.

UCLA researchers have found high numbers of pigs in Africa have been exposed to human H1N1 flu, which they say could lead to a pandemic in humans.

Los Angeles - A new study released by researchers at UCLA found that owners of multi-unit-housing could save up to $18 million a year if they enforced 'complete smoke-free' policies in rental property.