Well, a ‘boobs-sweat issue’ in a hot summer in Los Angeles sparked the idea to a revolutionary solution to help feel ‘millions of boobs’ comfortable and ‘wooo-ing’ the internet crazily. (more…)
Model and actress Amber Rose’s 3rd annual SlutWalk is scheduled to take place from Sept. 30 – Oct. 1 in downtown Los Angeles, CA – Pershing Square.
But what is it really? (more…)
UCLA – NPS study is first to investigate where the cats hunt in highly urbanized areas
Los Angeles is one of only two megacities — Mumbai, India, is the other — where large predatory cats live among us, and they’re closer to human development than you might think. (more…)
Radarsatelliten erfassen weltweit die Siedlungsflächen in bisher unerreichter Genauigkeit
Wie eine Tuschezeichnung mit mal filigranen, mal kräftigen Linien und Flecken sehen die Bilder aus, die Wissenschaftler des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) aus den Daten der deutschen Radarsatelliten TerraSAR-X und TanDEM-X berechnet haben. In Wirklichkeit zeigen die schwarz-weißen Karten aus über 500 Kilometern Höhe weltweit Städte, Dörfer und Häusergruppen, die sich an Flussläufen entlangwinden, Straßen und Eisenbahnlinien folgen oder sich in fruchtbaren Gebieten ausbreiten – mit einer Genauigkeit, wie sie bisher für globale Auswertungen nicht erreicht wurde. “Wir gehen davon aus, dass die besiedelte Fläche weltweit größer ist als bisher geschätzt”, sagt DLR-Wissenschaftler Dr. Thomas Esch. Bei einer Auflösung der zu Grunde liegenden Radaraufnahmen von drei Metern erkennen die Satelliten selbst einzelne Gebäude aus dem All. (more…)
UCLA psychologists have used brain-imaging techniques to study what happens to the human brain when it slips into unconsciousness. Their research, published Oct. 17 in the online journal PLOS Computational Biology, is an initial step toward developing a scientific definition of consciousness.
“In terms of brain function, the difference between being conscious and unconscious is a bit like the difference between driving from Los Angeles to New York in a straight line versus having to cover the same route hopping on and off several buses that force you to take a ‘zig-zag’ route and stop in several places,” said lead study author Martin Monti, an assistant professor of psychology and neurosurgery at UCLA. (more…)
Serena Lee aspires to increase our understanding of people living with “invisible disabilities.” Amy Stuyvesant wants to figure out how changes in hurricane activity are helping or hindering the forests of Puerto Rico.
Although their subjects of their research are unrelated, these two graduating seniors share a key distinction. Thanks to the Wasserman Undergraduate Scholars Program, they are pursuing high-level research that they expect to have an impact far beyond UCLA. (more…)
PASADENA, Calif. – New insights into two factors that are creating a potentially volatile Southern California wildfire season come from an ongoing project using NASA and Indian satellite data by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; and Chapman University, Orange, Calif.
The scientists tracked the relationship between rainfall and the growth and drying-out of vegetation in recent months, during an abnormally dry year. They found the timing of rains triggered regional vegetation growth in January and early February, which then dried out faster than normal during a period of low rainfall, strong winds and high temperatures in March and April. The combination likely elevates wildfire risks by increasing available fuel. (more…)
A genetic pathway involving proteins in the endosomes of cells appears to be misregulated in the brains of children with autism, according to a newly published statistical analysis in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Previously the genes were shown to cause rare forms of the disease but the new study suggests they have a wider role.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study finds that two genes individually associated with rare autism-related disorders are also jointly linked to more general forms of autism. The finding suggests a new genetic pathway to investigate in general autism research. (more…)
