Significant advancements in brain scanning techniques and biological markers are allowing scientists to track the progression of Alzheimer’s disease earlier and with greater accuracy, marking a new era in the development of drugs that could halt or potentially prevent the disease.

Though loneliness has often been defined by the amount of social interaction a person experiences, a recent study led by scientists at UCLA sheds new light on how loneliness may be linked to the most basic internal processes of our biology.

With movies and television shows commonly portraying college students as eager to experiment sexually, students transitioning to college life may believe that they will be faced with a lot of pressure to be sexually active.

On any given Saturday night, large crowds of people may be lined up outside of Gypsy Café and Habibi Café on Broxton Avenue for hookah, a form of tobacco smoking which is becoming a growing trend in the United States, particularly among college-aged people.

On July 7, a spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to embark on an eight-year mission led by UCLA professor of geophysics and space physics Christopher Russell to explore two planetary bodies between Mars and Jupiter.

At this year’s graduation ceremony for the David Geffen School of Medicine, 26 year-old Kellie Lim walked across the stage on a pair of prosthetic legs to accept her diploma.

Recent advancements in the health sciences have paved a new path to screening for recurring breast cancer with more accuracy.
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a microarray genetic test, called MammaPrint, that is designed to determine the likelihood of early-stage breast cancer recurrence within 5 to 10 years of initial treatment.

Emerging research has begun to uncover how human bodies communicate with each other through scent, which may be a key to understanding sexual attraction in men and women.