Latinos in the United States helped propel the national economy forward with a total economic output, or gross domestic product, of $3.2 trillion in 2021, according to a new study by UCLA researchers and colleagues.
Economics & Business
Sep 13, 2023
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Could ants' nests hold the secret to reducing traffic congestion on the 405 Freeway?
Ecology
Aug 31, 2023
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When UCLA shifted to remote instruction during the early days of COVID-19, the campus was much less populated—but it wasn't totally empty. Several species of animals continued to go about their daily lives, just with far ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2023
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As more of the nation has adopted legal marijuana, a glut of products containing the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, THC, as well as other cannabinoids that can be derived from THC or the plant itself, has emerged in ...
Biochemistry
Aug 14, 2023
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Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power smartphones, electric vehicles and storage for solar and wind energy, among other technologies.
Materials Science
Aug 2, 2023
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In the story of Charles Darwin, there are two often-omitted footnotes: He was taught by a Black former enslaved man, John Edmonstone, and he was assisted in his groundbreaking research by a Black servant, Syms Covington.
Education
Jul 24, 2023
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Rising global temperatures are making it harder for birds to know when it's spring and time to breed according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Plants & Animals
Jul 3, 2023
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The largest marine predator that ever lived was no cold-blooded killer. A new analysis by environmental scientists from UCLA, UC Merced and William Paterson University sheds light on the warm-blooded animal's ability to regulate ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 26, 2023
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A new technique developed by UCLA geologists that uses artificial intelligence to better predict where and why landslides may occur could bolster efforts to protect lives and property in some of the world's most disaster-prone ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2023
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Two pieces of landmark federal legislation intended to lessen the gender pay gap have long been deemed by many scholars to have been ineffectual. Despite the passage of the 1963 Equal Pay Act, signed into law 60 years ago ...
Economics & Business
Jun 15, 2023
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