Air for disadvantaged LA residents is more polluted, more toxic
People dealing with the most socioeconomic disadvantages in greater Los Angeles also face higher levels of toxic air pollution, according to a new UCLA-led study.
People dealing with the most socioeconomic disadvantages in greater Los Angeles also face higher levels of toxic air pollution, according to a new UCLA-led study.
Environment
Dec 9, 2022
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It might seem like common sense that a starving animal is more likely to take dangerous risks to obtain food than one with a full belly. But new research from UCLA shows that groups of Argentine ants, who forage boldly when ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2022
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Researchers at UCLA and UC Riverside today released a nationally representative survey of 682 high school principals, making clear that political conflicts impacting schools are pervasive and growing, with more than two-thirds ...
Education
Dec 1, 2022
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Birds do it. Bees do it. Even spiders in their webs do it: cooperate for more peaceful colonies.
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2022
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UCLA researchers and their colleagues have discovered a new physics principle governing how heat transfers through materials, and the finding contradicts the conventional wisdom that heat always moves faster as pressure increases.
General Physics
Nov 28, 2022
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Around the world, governments have widely attempted two strategies meant to reduce the use of gasoline by making it more expensive.
Economics & Business
Nov 22, 2022
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The earliest galaxies were cosmic fireballs converting gas into stars at breathtaking speeds across their full extent, reports a UCLA-led study to be published in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
Astronomy
Nov 18, 2022
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Many estimates of how strongly traits and diseases share genetic signals may be inflated, according to a new UCLA-led study that indicates current methods for assessing genetic relationships between traits fail to account ...
Biotechnology
Nov 17, 2022
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Low-income homes in California are more likely to have their power disconnected about two to three months after days when the temperature exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit than they are at any other time of year. That's because ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2022
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Powerful supershear earthquakes, once considered rare, are much more common than previously thought, according to a study led by UCLA geophysicists and published today in Nature Geoscience.
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2022
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