On the evening of April 25, 1986, crews prepared for a routine shutdown of a Ukrainian nuclear reactor. Read more...
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UCLA workers load irradiated uranium fuel from Boelter Hall’s nuclear reactor, located on the second floor of the building. From 1959, UCLA possessed a nuclear reactor, but it was decommissioned in 1984 because of protests and lack of use.
A UCLA student woke up at 6 a.m. after a long night of drinking to discover drawings all over his body. Puzzled, he made it to his 9 a.m. class with artwork still on him and no recollection of how it had gotten there.
"I was at a party, and everyone was drinking. It was like a competition," said the student, who wishes to remain anonymous.
"The last thing I remember is dancing on top of a table." Read more...
Neurobiologists from across the country have discovered that students who are fluent in at least two languages are better at multitasking and less likely to face an early onset of Alzheimer's disease. The findings were presented at a conference in Washington, D.C., last month. "A lot of brain imaging scans have shown that being bilingual has changed the structure of the brain," said Lauren Mason Carris, a doctoral candidate in applied linguistics at UCLA. Read more...
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Second-year neuroscience student Yuta Ebikawa speaks both English and Japanese. A recent study found bilingual people are better able to multitask and are less likely to show early signs of Alzheimer’s.
On its last mission on Thursday, Space Shuttle Discovery flew the first UCLA-led research project into space. Read more...
Before freeways and houses defined what is now urban Los Angeles, the area was an ecosystem of diverse plants and animals that adapted over hundreds of thousands of years to live in the hot, dry climate. Read more...
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Biology Professor Rasoul Sharifi researches a Mediterranean plant, the butcher’s broom, for his research on plant physiology and adaptive mechanisms in the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Gardens.
But the increase could have been caused in part by changes in diagnostic methods, sources said.
In 1994, the criteria for diagnosing autism was broadened to include milder cases of autism. Read more...
Waldo Yan had some trepidation at first.
As an employee with UCLA Adaptive Recreation, the second-year political science student had seen a variety of disabilities and impairments but had never worked with autistic children before.
He wasn't really sure what to expect, and frankly, was a little bit afraid. Read more...
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Volunteers meet at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center every Saturday to teach autistic children about the fundamentals of tennis through a program called ACEing Autism. The program helps kids improve coordination and the ability to focus. (courtesy of Harvey Rubin)
