When frost forms on the ground overnight even when temperatures are well above freezing, or water droplets appear on car windshields even on a clear night, the cause is often a phenomenon called radiative sky cooling.

Mechanical engineers at UCLA and China’s Tsinghua University have opened a new path toward reusable energy-absorbing materials – ones designed to take an impact, then bounce back to their original shape and strength. The study was published in Advanced Functional Materials.

Ali Khademhosseini, UCLA’s Levi James Knight, Jr. Professor of Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the country’s highest honor for achievement in the arts, social sciences and sciences.

In a paper in Science Robotics, materials scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering describe a new design for a swimming robot that’s both powered and steered by constant light.

Advance could lead to better understanding of astronomical events such as solar flares and gamma ray bursts, and effects observed in scientific experiments in high-energy synchrotrons and storage rings.

UCLA researchers have a plan to redesign computer chips from the ground up to make smaller, cheaper, and more dynamic electronic devices.

The advance – using an electrical push rather than a pull – could lead to more reliable medical diagnostic tools

Casting super strong metals with grain sizes down to nanometers during slow cooling. The study was published in Science Advances

UCLA aerospace engineering graduate student McKenna Davis has received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, considered one of the country’s most prestigious honors for graduate students at the outset of their studies.