Differences in children's literature in the U.S., Mexico and China may help explain academic performance.

Executive Vice President of UC Health John D. Stobo issued a statement today (Jan. 10) applauding Governor Brown’s proposal to establish the California Institute to Advance Precision Health and Medicine.

Scientists find yellow warbler DNA is already adjusting to new conditions and ask whether it's enough to survive.

Greg Wright and others project the winners and losers of the economy in the coming year.

No one — companies or nation states — is above big data hacks, researchers find.

Scientists disable a muscle degeneration trigger to extend mouse lifespans by 25 percent.

More than 8.3 billion metric tons (9.1 billion tons). That’s the amount of plastic humans have created since the large-scale production of synthetic materials began in the early 1950s. It’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina, and most of the material now resides in landfills or in the natural environment.

Keeping track of the climate just got easier, thanks to a new satellite-based monitoring tool.

Transportation expert Lewis Fulton weighs in on what roads will look like five, 10, even 20 years from now.

People can feel when surfaces differ by just a single layer of molecules, suggesting new avenues for touch technology.

Dacher Keltner helps launch the art world’s first ‘empathy center,’ using the power of art to induce compassion.

Life was already diverse 3.5 billion years ago — and may be so elsewhere today.