A toddler-like robot allows researchers to confirm their findings — and to help study non-verbal children and adults.

UC Riverside professor receives National Science Foundation grant for research into survival mechanisms of plant species in California.

Research center's interdiscipolinary projects will focus on water for the next two years.

Machines much smaller than the width of a human hair could one day help clean up ocean pollution.

Fragile X syndrome, other genetic types of autism are flagged; study also points to potential new drug discoveries.

UC San Diego report highlights new possibilities for increasing the efficiency of operations at border crossings in the San Diego-Tijuana region.

Zev Gartner's innovative work in 3-D tissue generation has earned him a spot on Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10' list of 2015.

The anticipated El Niño of 2015 could help farmers in California, but this climate phenomenon typically 'creates winners and losers on a global scale,' write UC Berkeley’s Solomon Hsiang and UC Santa Barbara's Kyle Meng.

How an early-warning system would work in practice, beginning with the first blaring alarm from a cellphone: 'Earthquake! Drop, cover and hold on! Strong shaking expected!'

Venture out into the fields of Salinas with Mark Bittman as he interviews UC Berkeley's Brenda Eskenazi. She leads the CHAMACOS study, which follows children born between 2000-02 and assesses the impact of pesticides and other environmental chemicals (like flame retardants) on their long-term health.

The Inuit and their Siberian ancestors have special genetic mutations that help them partly counteract the effects of a diet high in marine mammal fat — and most of us don't. 

Aquaculture is reviving now, and the Bodega Marine Laboratory is positioned to further research on local species.