UC Berkeley |

Talking science with the fluidity of Pixar

Ph.D. student Sara ElShafie works with Pixar story artists to help her fellow scientists better communicate.

UC Merced |

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.

Wired |

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.

UC Irvine |

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.

UC Santa Barbara |

Ocean solutions

On World Oceans Day, check out the work UC Santa Barbara is doing to preserve our vast marine ecosystems.

UC Davis |

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.

UC San Diego |

Play piano with this virtual reality glove

It's a leap forward with potential applications that are even more dazzling.

UCSF |

Bicycling's huge costs in America

Billion-dollar toll from injuries suggests a need for safer infrastructure.

UCLA |

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.

UC Santa Cruz |

Rescuing damaged chromosomes

The discovery of a 'Hail Mary' mechanism for saving damaged cells could lead to new strategies to fight cancer.

UC Berkeley |

Science shows for the first time how puberty makes learning harder

Parents who think a switch is flipped: read this.

UC San Diego |

How climate change makes us all lose sleep

Millions of nights of insufficent sleep could be created by rising temperatures, study says.