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From deep space to democracy: Trio of UCLA professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (194+ words) From left: Craig Manning, Eric Becklin and Martin Gilens. UCLA's'Eric Becklin, Martin Gilens and Craig Manning'have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their achievements in original research and their impact in advancing knowledge within their…...
Dr. Lili Yang and Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh in white UCLA lab coats
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (36+ words) Photo | Dr. Lili Yang and Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh in white UCLA lab coats'Newsroom | UCLA Dr. Lili Yang and Dr. Sanaz Memarzadeh in white UCLA lab coats Elena Zhukova/UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center...
Chemists thought phosphorus had shown all its cards. It surprised them with a new move
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (470+ words) Carbon-nitrogen bonds are some of the most important kinds of bonds for drug discovery and manufacturing. Almost all medicines have nitrogen in them, but fixing that nitrogen into molecules is difficult, which is why we use precious transition metal catalysts,…...
Hydrogen sulfide detected in distant gas giant exoplanets for the first time
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (537+ words) But astronomers have also identified brown dwarfs smaller than 13 Jupiter masses. Xuan and colleagues at UCSD have now found some answers in four enormous gas giant planets that orbit a star called HR 8799, located approximately 133 light-years away in the constellation…...
How UCLA scientists helped reimagine a forgotten battery design from Thomas Edison
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (830+ words) A little-known fact: In the year 1900, electric cars outnumbered gas-powered ones on the American road." The lead-acid auto battery of the time, courtesy of Thomas Edison, was expensive and had a range of only about 30"miles. Seeking to improve on…...
Alice Shapley receives the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (255+ words) Newsroom | UCLA UCLA physics and astronomy professor Alice Shapley has received the Dannie Heineman Prize in recognition of her influential research in the origin and development of galaxies. The award is granted by the American Astronomical Society and the American…...
UCLA study sets new benchmarks for 3 D, atom-by-atom maps of disordered materials
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (408+ words) Researchers at the California Nano Systems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the three-dimensional positions and elemental identities of atoms in amorphous materials. These solids, such as glass, lack the repeating atomic patterns seen in a crystal....
A year after undermining Bredt's rule, UCLA scientists have made cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (524+ words) Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking chemical bonds. The rules governing how these bonds, which hold atoms together in molecules, form and the shapes they give molecules are…...
Next generation of batteries may get lifespan boost with help from new UCLA imaging techniques
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (950+ words) A new study led by researchers at the California Nano Systems Institute at UCLA, or CNSI, however, might just help ratchet up the pace of progress. In the journal Science Advances, the team documented an imaging technique they invented that…...