Breakthrough Research Sheds Light on the Formation and Role of Congestus Clouds
The new insights into these little-understood clouds can help scientists form more accurate climate models.
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How the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department has grown into a teaching powerhouse at UCLA
UCLA Division of Physical Sciences Listening Exercise
Attendees at the chancellor’s Listening Exercise session for Physical Sciences on March 17, 2025 raised several key issues affecting the division.
The Next Trillion Dollar Industry
As space exploration, science, and technology advances at an ever-faster rate, an entirely new economy, the space economy, has sprung up. In fact, by 2040 the space economy is projected to be the next trillion dollar industry. With that realization in mind, the UCLA Anderson Forecast, UCLA SPACE Institute, and the UCLA Division of Physical...
Growing My Own Roots
How this 3rd-generation Bruin Found a New Home at UCLA
As NEOWISE Comes to an End, NEO Surveyor Prepares for Launch
After more than a decade of mapping the sky, NASA’s NEOWISE telescope, the Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, was officially decommissioned last week. During its nearly 15-year run, NEOWISE observed the cosmos at infrared wavelengths and collected data on more than 740 million objects, including stars, galaxies and potentially hazardous asteroids. But the mission that...
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