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• A new study by researchers at UCLA shows that even a short-term visit to a severely polluted city can be detrimental to one’s health. The study involved 26 non-smoking, healthy adults who traveled from LA to Beijing during the summers of 2014 and 2015 over a 10-week period.

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  Published 26th Nov 2019
• Capturing carbon dioxide and turning it into commercial products, such as fuels or construction materials, could become a new global industry

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  Published 7th Nov 2019
• Earth-like planets may be common in the universe, a new UCLA study implies. Reserchers developed a new method to analyze in detail the geochemistry of planets outside of our solar system by analyzing the elements in rocks from asteroids or rocky planet fragments that orbited six white dwarf stars

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  Published 18th Oct 2019
• A new study in mice led by UCLA biologists strongly suggests that serotonin and drugs that target serotonin, such as anti-depressants, can have a major effect on the gut’s microbiota

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  Published 6th Sep 2019