GPT-3 Can Solve Intelligence, Standardized Tests Like College Undergraduates, UCLA Psychologists Say

Medicine & Technology Aug 01, 2023

AI language model GPT-3 is as good as college undergraduates in solving intelligence and standardized tests. Continue reading to learn more.

Record-Breaking Lethal Heat Dome Experienced in Pacific Northwest Region After 10,000 Years

Oct 04, 2022

UCLA scientists found the summer heat wave is a record breaking humidity in the Pacific Northwest region. Know the indication of their study here, read more!

Breastfeeding Mothers Cannot Transmit COVID-19 Through Breast Milk; Moms Can Continue Nourishing Infants Amid Pandemic Says WHO, CDC

Jan 19, 2022

A comprehensive study led by UCLA revealed that breastfeeding is safe and can not transmit COVID-19 to children. CDC and WHO recommends to continue on feeding infants with breast milk amidst the pandemic.

14,000 Californian Lives Could be Saved Each Year if the State Remains Carbon-Neutral Similar to When on Lockdown, Research Finds

May 08, 2020

Air pollution has been cleared in California due to the coronavirus causing people to stay at home. Researchers from UCLA say that if the state takes measures on improving the air quality, about 14,000 lives would be saved yearly. Click the link above to learn more.

A New Vapor Capture System Inspired by Spiders

Apr 22, 2019

Taking a cue from spider webs, researchers capture fresh water with a vapor capture system.

Strong And Light Supermetal Created In The Labs Of UCLA

Dec 24, 2015

UCLA created a strong and lightweight metal through nanotechnology.

Superbug Infects 4 Patients at a Second Los Angeles Hospital

Mar 05, 2015

Four patients have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The superbug in questions has been linked to a type of medical scope that is used on more than a half-million people in the United States each year.

Superbug Breaks Out at UCLA Medical Center, Causing Concern for Safety of Endoscopic Procedures

Feb 19, 2015

While all may seem fine in endoscopic outpatient procedures, with an easy check-in and virtually no down-time at all, it turns out that an antibiotic-resistant superbug may be waiting in the OR. Health officials with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the California health department are on high alert this week as news of two deaths in a local Los Angeles hospital have researchers wondering whether the superbug will claim more lives in its wake.

Memory Restoration Now Possible? Neurologists Find New Secrets to Synapses Storage

Dec 22, 2014

Neurologists have discovered that memory restoration may be a near possibility. In a recent study, researchers from UCLA's department of Integrative Biology and Neurobiology found that memories are not stored in the synapses, as was once believed.

‘G2’ Gas Ball Survives Black Hole, and Researchers Say They Now Know Why

Nov 04, 2014

For years, astronomers have pondered the origins and the contents of the mysterious G2 object floating in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Drifting towards the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, the passing cloud was thought to be composed entirely of hydrogen gas, giving it the nickname “G2”. But earlier this past summer researchers found that G2 had come in close contact with the black hole, and it survived—leading them on a new theory as to what the mysterious object could be.