UC scientists were big winners in latest round of funding, with money going to projects at UCSF, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Diego.

Accents are extremely difficult to lose because our infant brains codify a lifetime's worth of sounds before we've spoken our first word.

UC Santa Cruz researcher's finding that scars from environmental stresses can be passed on from one generation to the next proves to be an advance in the new field of epigenetics.

How hot do you like your peppers? Researchers at the University of California are working the heat levels of the jalapeño pepper down to a science.

How cool is your roof? If you live in the California cities of Bakersfield, Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco or San Jose, you can find out with Berkeley Lab's interactive map. It's part of the lab's heat island research.

A new study suggests that maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleeping well through the stressful times may buffer against the negative impacts of stress — on a cellular level.

The amazing variety of human faces – far greater than that of most other animals – is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us easily recognizable.

Engineers from UC Berkeley and Stanford University have printed an ant-sized radio onto a silicon chip.

Public officials are urging California and the nation to put in place Berkeley Seismology Laboratory's Earthquake Early Warning System.

An outbreak of algae-produced biotoxins that attack animals'€™ brains also poses a grave risk to humans.

The soil that makes Napa Valley grapes so special also makes the region vulnerable to seismic activity.

The violence that turns a small-town protest into a fiery national spectacle like the one that has played out this month in Missouri is often unwittingly provoked by police, according to researchers at UC Berkeley.