A team of UCLA engineers have taken an old spray-cooling method and applied it to silicon-based transistors. The result is a new method to cool down powerful transistors like those found in electric cars, aircraft, radar stations and personal computers. Read more...

Personal Digital Assistants: people have lived without them for millennia, so why buy one now? If you have been waiting for wireless internet, now may be the time to take the plunge. Read more...

Greedy corporate executives, greedy athletes, and greedy politicians have loomed large in popular culture and the national news over the past few months. But the apparently natural human instinct to be selfish has been over-emphasized for too long, according to UCLA professor Shelley Taylor in her new book. Read more...

“Take two Charlie Chaplins and a small dose of the Simpsons and call me in the morning.” This is the kind of prescription UCLA doctors hope to one day prescribe. Read more...

Since its discovery almost a decade ago, the believed benefits of the “anti-obesity hormone” called leptin has fluctuated back and forth. The hormone first caused a stir when scientists announced they could cause fat mice to lose weight by injecting them with the weight-regulating hormone. Read more...

Botanical garden’s new attractions The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden at UCLA opened its new hummingbird and butterfly pollination bed on Aug. 10. The new exhibit, located on the north end of the 8-acre garden, features perennial plants, daisies and tubular flowers of various sorts. Read more...

Doctors remain “cautiously optimistic” about the condition of Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez, who remain in critical but stable condition with vital signs in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital in Westwood. Read more...