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Achilles' Heel for Bedbugs: They're Terrified of Water
Scientists Discover What
Terrifies Bedbugs
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Feb 28, 2026 7:10 AM CST

Scientists Discover What Terrifies Bedbugs

Study finds the critters don't love water, instinctively avoid wet, liquid-treated household surfaces

(Newser) - Bedbugs, it turns out, really don't like to get their feet wet. Researchers at UC-Riverside report that the household pests strongly avoid damp surfaces, a finding that emerged by accident when a lab feeding device leaked blood into a vial of bedbugs—and the insects refused to go near...

Feds Accuse UCLA of Ignoring 'Grossly Antisemitic Acts'

Lawsuit seeks damages for 'aggrieved Jewish and Israeli UCLA employees'

(Newser) - The Justice Department has taken its clash with the University of California, Los Angeles, to court. In an 81-page lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, the Trump administration accuses UCLA of allowing widespread antisemitism that violated the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli employees, alleging the university...

Pee When You Sneeze? There's a Quick Fix You May Not Know About

Minimally invasive fillers offer long-term relief, but few know about them

(Newser) - Plenty of women are faithfully doing their Kegels—and still peeing a little bit every time they sneeze, or run, or any number of other everyday occurrences. In a first-person piece for the Guardian , writer Gail Cornwall describes years of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) that left her planning runs around...

During Lockdown, Campus Birds Physically Changed
During Lockdown, UCLA
Birds Physically Changed
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Dec 16, 2025 1:57 PM CST

During Lockdown, UCLA Birds Physically Changed

With fewer people around, urban evolution in area's dark-eyed juncos reversed, a study finds

(Newser) - When students vanished during the pandemic from the University of California, Los Angeles, the beaks on its campus songbirds quietly morphed. That remarkable finding comes from a new study in PNAS, which is the first to document a pandemic-related change in the physical form of a wild animal group, per...

America's Favorite Cooking Oil Linked to Weight Gain
America's Favorite Cooking
Oil Linked to Weight Gain
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Dec 6, 2025 11:45 AM CST

America's Favorite Cooking Oil Linked to Weight Gain

Study of mice raises concern about elevated levels of oxylipins in soybean oil

(Newser) - A new study suggests that soybean oil, the most commonly used cooking oil in the US, may have a surprising link to weight gain. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside found that mice fed a diet rich in soybean oil gained significant weight, while genetically engineered mice, with a...

Administration Tells UC System to Pay the Biggest Fine Yet

Newsom promises to resist the $1B demand because 'what President Trump is doing is wrong'

(Newser) - The Trump administration is insisting the University of California system pay a $1 billion fine over antisemitism allegations in order for UCLA to get more than a half-billion in medical and science grant funding that had been frozen. Such an agreement would be the largest reached with a college...

Rare Manuscripts Swapped for Fakes at UCLA Library

Suspect allegedly used aliases when accessing the texts

(Newser) - A library patron is accused of pulling off a rare-books switcheroo at UCLA, according to the Justice Department. Authorities say Jeffrey Ying, 38, used a number of aliases while accessing valuable Chinese manuscripts—some more than six centuries old—then swapped them out for fakes. The real texts, reportedly...

Trump Administration Probes Stanford and UC Admissions

Focus is on affirmative action compliance amid federal scrutiny

(Newser) - The Trump administration has opened investigations into Stanford University and three University of California campuses—Berkeley, UCLA, and Irvine—focused on whether their admissions policies comply with the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that ended affirmative action. US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is leading the effort, says she and President...

Suit: Barbie Maker Reneged on Promise of Big Donation

UCLA Foundation says Mattel should pay the full $49M that was pledged

(Newser) - The UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital bears the name of the company that donated $25 million to support the hospital's construction in 1998. But Mattel and the UCLA Foundation are now at odds over what the latter claims is the toymaker's decision to renege on a much larger...

Accused of Being a 'Pretendian,' College Prof Comes Clean

Calls emerge for UC Berkeley's Elizabeth Hoover to resign after admitting she's not Native American

(Newser) - A California college instructor accused of falsely claiming Native American ancestry is now admitting she's white and apologizing—and it was one of her closest friends who conducted a good amount of the probing that led to her apology. The hubbub stretches back to February 2021, when Elizabeth Hoover,...

University Apologizes for Experiments on Prisoners

UCSF conducted the dermatology experiments in the 1960s and '70s

(Newser) - A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men's skin and injecting it into their veins, per the AP . Two dermatologists at the University...

UC to Pay $243.6M Over Gynecologist's Alleged Abuse
Ex-UCLA Gynecologist
Convicted of Sexual Abuse
UPDATED
Oct 21, 2022 12:32 AM CDT

Ex-UCLA Gynecologist Convicted of Sexual Abuse

Dr. James Heaps was found guilty on some counts, not guilty on others

(Newser) - Update: The former UCLA gynecologist embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal was on Thursday convicted of some of the 21 counts he faced, which involved accusations from seven women. Dr. James Heaps, 65, was found guilty of five counts of sexually abusing female patients and not guilty on seven other...

Suspect Arrested After UCLA Mass Shooting Threat

Boulder police say Matthew Harris also threatened violence in that city

(Newser) - This story has been updated with news of Harris' arrest. A former University of California, Los Angeles lecturer accused of threatening a mass shooting is now in custody. Police in Boulder, Colorado say Matthew Harris barricaded himself inside his home but was taken into custody peacefully after around three hours,...

iPhones of the Future May Keep Tabs on Your Mental Health

Apple has teamed up with Biogen, UCLA to study depression, anxiety, cognitive decline

(Newser) - We rely on our devices for practically everything these days, and Apple apparently hopes we'll soon check our iPhones to get a better handle on our mental health. The tech giant has previously teamed up with UCLA on mental health research, and with pharmaceuticals company Biogen on studying cognitive...

Thousands Can Now Skip ACT and SAT Tests

Standardized testing opponents score win in California

(Newser) - In a major win for opponents of standardized testing, the University of California public university system will no longer use ACT and SAT scores as part of its admissions process. Per the New York Times , the announcement comes as part of the settlement of a lawsuit filed in 2019 by...

Biggest US College System Will Make Vaccine Mandatory

All students, staff at California public universities will be required to get COVID vaccine

(Newser) - Two of the nation’s largest university systems say they intend to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty, and staff on campuses this fall. Several US colleges and universities hoping to get back to normal campus life after months of online learning also have said they plan to make...

Audit: UC Admitted 64 Students as 'Favors'

State audit came in response to college admissions scandal

(Newser) - A California state audit has found that the University of California wrongly admitted at least 64 wealthy students over the past six years as “favors to donors, family, and friends." The California State Auditor also found in the audit released Tuesday that campus staff falsely designated 22 of...

University of California President: Let's Stop Using the SAT, ACT

Janet Napolitano, president of the UC system, recommends use of a homegrown test

(Newser) - The president of the University of California wants to end the use of the SAT and ACT as admission requirements and replace them with a homegrown test, according to a plan released Monday. Janet Napolitano’s five-year plan was submitted in advance of a May 21 Board of Regents meeting...

E-Scooters Are Everywhere. With That, a Disturbing Trend

Number of injury cases has tripled over 5-year period

(Newser) - An "explosion" of electric scooter riders has led to a more disturbing (but maybe not surprising) spike. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the number of injuries caused by the two- or three-wheeled vehicles tripled in five years' time, per a study published in the JAMA Surgery journal. Researchers...

Donald Trump Jr. Walks Out of Book Launch

He and girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle heckled—by the right

(Newser) - Donald Trump Jr. is making the rounds to promote his new book, Triggered, and he may well have expected to encounter protesters—but the ones that forced him out of a book launch event Sunday were from the right, not the left. KTVU notes most of the anti-Trump protesters at...

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