His well-kept office is filled with gifts and souvenirs that make it clear just how many places John Richardson has visited ““ a German flag hanging over his filing cabinet, a poster on “How to Read a Book” propped in front of his computer screen, a miniature camel from Turkmenistan caravanning across his bookshelf.

Think sprawling canopies, long, notched wooden tables and thousands of roaring, beer-belly busting patrons.

Four hours of unlimited four ounce pours from 70 of the world’s best craft brewers: the L.A. Beer Week festival at Union Station was a casual drinker’s hoppy heaven.

The Higgs boson, known commonly as the “God particle,” is thought to be responsible for all of the matter in the universe. But physicists only found evidence of its existence last week.

Despite the dangers of biking through car-heavy Los Angeles, about 1,800 students, staff and faculty ride to campus every day.

The midterm crunch had arrived ““ so of course, I was playing games online at midnight in the Powell Library Reading Room. But at least I could feel good about my procrastination: I was also diagnosing malaria in red blood cells by playing a new Internet game introduced last week by a UCLA engineering research group.

Associated Students UCLA is currently working on a proposal to build a new casual dining restaurant in Ackerman Student Union focused on serving sit-down meals ““ and beer and wine will also likely be on the menu.

It has been a lifelong dream for Jacky Karadjian to attend UCLA. But as she watched the cost of a University of California education rise, she decided to attend Santa Monica College for two years to save money.

Arrival and departure times, gates and destinations flash across large screens as we walked into the Berlin airport lobby.

I have been trying to watch “The Big Bang Theory” for months now. I mean, I’m a physics major ““ it’s a comedy about a couple of physicists. Its science adviser is a UCLA professor, and the Barenaked Ladies wrote the theme song.