So there you are, sitting in the dungeons of Powell Library with so much studying to do you feel like you may never leave. You realize you haven’t had any sort of exercise in months, and consequently, your body has turned into what feels like the rotting nutty peanut butter in your mini-fridge at home. Read more...

They’re the quiet ones in class. The ones that stare at the ground and avoid eye contact. They shrink away from large crowds, preferring the company of a few close friends. Read more...

The Internet, the small network of computers that became a World Wide Web, celebrates its 35th birthday this year. UCLA, in conjunction with Stanford University, UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah, began constructing the Internet’s first incarnation for the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1969. Read more...

Beef and cheddar sandwich. It was on the dinner menu when thousands of undergraduates returned to life in the residential halls this year. Normally this menu item usually wouldn’t raise any questions, but this year, students are returning from winter break and with the December discovery of the first case of mad cow disease in the United States. Read more...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, was first found in British cattle in 1986. Now, almost 20 years later, BSE has been found in U.S. Read more...

UCLA seismologists are shaking things up with a new method that may allow scientists to predict earthquakes months in advance. The team of scientists from Russia, United States, Japan and France included experts in pattern recognition, geodynamics and statistical physics. Read more...

The recent successful landing of NASA’s Spirit Mars Exploration rover had a deep impact on planetary science at UCLA and around the world. “The Spirit rover provides a real sense of vicarious exploration,” said David Paige, a professor in the UCLA Department of Earth and Space Sciences. Read more...