Division of Physical Sciences

Creating a new model for heat wave trends

Assistant Professor of Statistics and the Environment Karen McKinnon earned the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award for her work studying the trends in the intensity of extreme heat events.

Transforming Data into Empathy: How I Reinvented My Passion at UCLA

Statistics and Data Science Helped Me Build a Mental Health app and turn Personal Challenges into a Force for Change

Chemistry, Crystals, and Quantum Science

This landmark research represents a major step in the growth of solid-state chemistry and, in turn, new applications of quantum science research.

How to Study Water on the Moon

UCLA Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Professor Hao Cao wins grant from NASA to develop new technology for extended use on the lunar surface.

A New Mathematical Modeling to Produce Capillaries

Professor Marcus Roper and recent grad Yujia Qi used zebra fish embryo for their work. Previous models had treated blood as a homogeneous fluid, and could not make any network that contained loops, even one as simple as the zebrafish’s.

‘Your voice matters too’: UCLA’s AJ Addae on the need for young Black scientists in the cosmetics industry

Addae, the child of immigrants from Ghana, and her company have continued to work with a variety of independent and mainstream cosmetics lines to develop products — including brands carried at Sephora and Target.

A major step toward ultrafast magnetism-based computers

The achievement could be a step toward computer memory using ultrafast phenomena that happen on the order of billionths of a second.

Biology’s Lost Children

What are viruses, really? And where did they come from? UCLA’s Chemistry and Biochemistry department is pushing the boundaries of virology, and helping to answer that question once and for all.

Novel AI Model Brings Together Computational and Medical Science

Professor Ying Nian Wu and his colleagues designed two new approaches to better optimize drug design

HRL Laboratories and UCLA Researcher Awarded Grant to Advance Quantum Computing

Collaboration aims to scale-up silicon-based quantum processors