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People experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County who contract COVID-19 are more than twice as likely to die than someone in the general population, according to new study by researchers from UCLA, the University of Southern…

Anyone familiar with antidepressants like Prozac or Wellbutrin knows that these drugs boost levels of neurotransmitters in the brain like serotonin and dopamine, which are known to play an important role in mood and behavior.It might come…

Extreme heat may not be as conspicuous as hurricanes and tornadoes, but heat waves killed over four times as many people as those other types of natural disasters combined in 2021, according to National Weather Service estimates.With…

Universities are literally awash in data. From administrative data offering information about students, faculty and staff, to research data on professors’ scholarly activities and even telemetric signals — the functional administrative…

The Hammer Museum at UCLA’s two-decades-long project to remake itself inside and out — including expanding, renovating and transforming the building — will culminate on March 26, 2023.The public will be welcomed into the final major…

A new agreement between UCLA and members of the Gabrielino Tongva tribe will ensure that traditional ways of planting, harvesting and gathering are part of campus landscaping and caretaking practices.The memorandum of understanding also…

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even spiders in their webs do it: cooperate for more peaceful colonies.That’s one of the surprising findings of a new study by UCLA undergraduates of orb-weaving spiders in Peru.The study also revealed that when…

Researchers at UCLA and UC Riverside today released a nationally representative survey of 682 high school principals, making clear that political conflicts affecting schools are pervasive and growing, with more than two-thirds of…

People who have long COVID-19 can experience many of the same lingering negative effects on their physical, mental and social well-being as those experienced by people who become ill with other, non-COVID illnesses, new research…

A grim new study by scholars from five universities, including UCLA, illuminates significant racial disparities in federal funding for science research.The seeds for the study, published Nov. 29 in the journal eLife, were planted in 2020…