Predicting intensity, impact of this winter’s El Niño is complicated by unprecedented confluence of weather anomalies.

U.N. World Toilet Day, Nov. 19, highlights global sanitation shortfalls and their toll on human health and the environment.

More women than ever before are running the state's largest public firms, but they still hold just one in eight of the senior executive and director positions in corporate California. 

Atlantic Philanthropies funds UCSF and Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, to stem the precipitous rise in dementia by training and connecting a new generation of leaders worldwide.

Even tots younger than 2 can tell when someone's trying to pull a fast one.

Researchers are optimistic about climate change solutions.

Eight-year-old Sophie doesn’t have fully developed finger bones in her left hand, but with the help of a CITRIS Invention Lab team, she is the new user of a 3-D printed super hand.

Breakup of Zachariae Isstrom could substantially raise sea levels around the globe.

Researchers from UC Davis and UC Cooperative Extension are testing a new method for capturing water by diverting it from rivers into Central Valley canals.

A global shift to bicycling would have a huge impact on the environment, especially in urban areas, and could save trillions of dollars.

Guess what? You’re only 10 percent human — the rest of you is made up of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes. Science Today talks with UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and professor Rob Knight about a new Microbiome and Microbial Sciences Initiative that will advance the study of microbiomes found in the gut and everywhere else on Earth.

Professor's new approach classifies 99 percent of all known exoplanets.