With a curiosity-building app, researchers Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler explore how personality can shift through small daily actions.

Research finds informal video visits are beneficial for humans and their pets.

Allison Harvey, a UC Berkeley psychology professor, says lessons from science can help everyone instill good habits — and even lead to more effective patient treatments.

UCSF researchers are scouring millions of compounds – with help from tiny zebrafish – to create anesthetics safe enough to use without an anesthesiologist.

By using a new way to measure psychopathy, Keanan Joyner says we could potentially decrease the cost of the disorder to the U.S. criminal justice system, estimated at $460 billion each year.

Sealing manure ponds at a Central Valley farm cut emissions dramatically.

Rebecsinib’s power to stop deadly cancers in their tracks will enter Phase 1 clinical trial this year.

Unlike existing treatments for Alzheimer’s that target unhealthy protein deposits, the new approach developed at UC San Diego could help address the root cause of the disease by influencing behavior of brain cells themselves.

Solar physicist Brandon Lazard shares his appropriately warm outlook on life and science.

A new study led by UC San Francisco researchers finds that chronic cannabis use — whether it’s smoked or consumed in edible form — is associated with significant cardiovascular risks.

A digital queueing system at busy ports could reduce traffic jams and lower the maritime shipping industry's carbon emissions.

A new study tests neural networks’ ability to handle ‘gray swan’ events.