UCLA researchers have developed software to estimate the rate at which tumors evolve.
Researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Belgium conducted the study, which was published in the Nature Biotechnology journal in January.

This post was updated Nov. 13 at 8:03 p.m.
Researchers at UCLA and the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma, created an application to demonstrate the difference between how people perceive their bodies and their actual appearances.

A UCLA student-led study found that drones can be used to determine whether ships are following pollution regulations.
The drones could help enforce air pollution requirements by examining ships’ emissions through a sensor package, according to the study, which was published in August.

Some professors and student groups at UCLA said they think the university has made progress in increasing the number of women in engineering, but more work still needs to be done.

This post was updated April 19 at 12:50 p.m.
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UCLA researchers discovered increasing the amount of green vegetation in an urban area improves psychological well-being.
Although previous studies have already assessed the benefits of green spaces for general health and well-being, the researchers aimed to find out how green spaces affected mental health in particular, said Ying-Ying Meng, a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an author of the study.

UCLA researchers developed a new method of testing the efficiency of different cancer treatments by growing tumors derived from patients’ cancer cells in labs.
A team of undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral faculty in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center published a paper showing the technique was effective in determining the right treatments for patients with rare forms of cancer in Communications Biology, a Nature Research journal, Feb.

This post was updated Feb. 12 at 3:15 p.m.
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UCLA researchers are helping construct the world’s largest and most sensitive gamma-ray observatory.
The observatory, called the Cherenkov Telescope Array, will comprise 118 telescopes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, according to a university press release.

This post was updated Feb. 1 at 1:27 p.m.
UCLA students call about 11,000 Uber and Lyft rides that never leave campus every week, raising concerns about the environmental impact of unnecessary trips.