UC San Francisco |

UCSF reveals how sugar industry influenced national conversation on heart disease

Documents show how trade organizations deflected scientific attention from sucrose to saturated fat.

NPR |

STEM to steam: How coffee is perking up engineering education

Your morning brew is now the focus of the most popular elective class and a new research center at UC Davis.

UC Riverside |

The perfect car, according to science

A new study shows how the aesthetic design of U.S. auto models affects consumer preferences.

UC Riverside |

Flowers critical link to bacteria transmission in wild bees

Research shows for the first time that multiple flower and wild bee species share several of the same types of bacteria.

UC Davis |

Peet's Coffee pledges $250,000 to advance coffee research

Gift will fund Peet's Coffee Pilot Roastery in first-of-its-kind Coffee Center at UC Davis.

UCLA |

UCLA civil engineer to lead Italy earthquake research team

New group to investigate geological aspects of the devastating August tremblor sequence.

UC Berkeley |

White racism linked to fatal heart disease for blacks and whites

Living in unabashedly racist communities can shorten lives, new study finds.

UC Davis |

Cancer therapies for dogs may speed up treatments for humans

Man's best friend leads the way in fighting diseases we have in common.

UC Santa Barbara |

How does your garden grow?

Professor, students model the effect of household gardens on greenhouse gas emissions.

UC Riverside |

Helping farmers improve air quality

Researchers receive grant to study ways of reducing fertilizer use in high temperature agricultural regions.

UC Santa Barbara |

A mammoth undertaking

How can de-extinction be made more ecologically responsible?

UC Newsroom |

Car sharing on campuses improves quality of life, takes cars off the road

A new survey by UC Berkeley and Zipcar shows how universities can relieve the crunch on campus parking.