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Coming of age in a warming world: How UC students are turning climate anxiety into action

How do UC students think about their futures, knowing that the climate they were born into will probably look a whole lot different than the one they grow old in?

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A UC degree launched Miguel Tamayo’s life as an aerospace engineer. Here’s how he paid for college.

Hear how one student paid for a UC education. 

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Making the most of a second chance

As a kid growing up in Salinas, Calif., Rolando Perez displayed an unusual academic and technical aptitude, and once dreamed of becoming an astronaut. But by the time he was in his mid-20s, he found himself on a path that, he says, “was going to wind me…
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UC Merced |

In any language, learning to walk and talk are linked

Walking infants are better able to speak and understand their native language — regardless of what language that may be — than crawling infants of the same age.
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UC Berkeley |

Oh Joy! Berkeley consults on Inside Out emotions

Emotion expert helps guide Pixar movie on uprooted tween's rush of feelings.
UC San Francisco |

A simple blood or urine test could catch prostate cancer risk early

Tests to gauge genetic risk ultimately will point to earlier, more precise diagnosis.
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UC San Francisco |

Longevity hormone is lower in stressed and depressed women

The hormone klotho, which regulates aging and enhances cognition, offers possible new link between mind and body.
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UC Davis |

Wild bees pollinate crops, but that's not why they should be conserved

Wild bee diversity is declining worldwide at unprecedented rates.
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UC Berkeley |

Scientists devise molecular lock and key to control GMOs

Bioengineers 'put ignition switch onto a handful of the bacteria’s essential genes' to prevent their accidental escape.
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UC Irvine |

A third of world's biggest groundwater basins are in distress

Reserves are likely far smaller than previously thought, and some may have only decades left before running dry.
Some of the researchers invoved in the project are (l to r) Jason Worden (PowWow Energy); Rich Wolski (UCSB Department of Computer Science); Roland Geyer, (UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management); Chandra Krintz (UCSB Department of Compute
UC Santa Barbara |

From data to tomato

UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis and PowWow Energy receive funding from the California Energy Commission to deploy method to measure groundwater use and to help growers deal with state's water crisis.
UC Davis |

Craft-brewing leader gives $1M to enhance UC Davis brewing facility

The gift from Carlos Alvarez, founder and owner of The Gambrinus Co., will fund new brewing and laboratory equipment at UC Davis to create the brewery of the future.
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UC Berkeley via The Conversation |

Health care cost-sharing prompts consumers to slash medical spending

Consumers appear to cut their medical care spending when deductibles go up, even when it doesn't make any sense.
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Leaving on a biofueled jet plane

Researchers develop a process to create drop-in aviation biofuel that won't gel at the low temperatures of the stratosphere.