Ph.D. student Sara ElShafie works with Pixar story artists to help her fellow scientists better communicate.
Talking science with the fluidity of Pixar
How reading makes us move
A new study shows how our muscles react as we process written language, an advance in the field of embodied cognition.
CRISPR may cure all genetic disease — one day
UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna reflects on how her gene editing tool may alter the world as we know it.
Small climb in mean temperatures linked to far higher chance of deadly heat waves
UC Irvine-led analysis of data from India could have dire implications for the future.
Ocean solutions
On World Oceans Day, check out the work UC Santa Barbara is doing to preserve our vast marine ecosystems.
Scientist helps excavate oldest-known human fossils — and their dinner
Discovery of 300,000-year-old human ancestors pushes back our origins by 100,000 years.
Play piano with this virtual reality glove
It's a leap forward with potential applications that are even more dazzling.
Bicycling's huge costs in America
Billion-dollar toll from injuries suggests a need for safer infrastructure.
How the Galapagos cormorant lost its ability to fly
Analyzing one of Darwin's favorite birds, a research team finds the genetic changes that clipped the bird's wings.
Rescuing damaged chromosomes
The discovery of a 'Hail Mary' mechanism for saving damaged cells could lead to new strategies to fight cancer.
Science shows for the first time how puberty makes learning harder
Parents who think a switch is flipped: read this.
How climate change makes us all lose sleep
Millions of nights of insufficent sleep could be created by rising temperatures, study says.