UC Santa Barbara |

Virtually all seabirds are eating plastic

Thanks to its prevalence as garbage in the ocean, plastics have been ingested by nine out of every 10 seabirds now living.

UC Natural Reserve System |

Hunting for green treasure

Citizen scientists are joining botanists to find and measure California's plant diversity.

UC San Francisco |

DNA guides 3-D printing of human tissue

Technique produces tiny models of human tissue, or ‘organoids,’ that can be used in cancer research and drug screening.

UC Santa Barbara |

Deflecting asteroids: fact or fiction?

Solar laser beams will push that deadly space rock out of a collision course with Earth: It sounds far-fetched, but it may be closer to reality than one might think.

Fig. 1 by University of California |

Do high fives help sports teams win?

Hugs. High fives. Fist bumps. Touch is an essential part of how people communicate with one another. UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner examined NBA games to see if there is a relationship between a team's success and how often they touch.

UCLA |

More than 750,000 elderly Californians ‘unofficially’ poor

1 in 5 older adults have incomes above the federal poverty level, but still struggle to pay their expenses.

UCLA |

Male or female? It's not always so simple

Researchers are studying the biological origins of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Gladstone Institutes |

HIV particles don't cause AIDS — our own immune cells do

Virus turns host immune cells into suicide machines, using them to spread the virus and cause the progression from infection to disease.

California Magazine |

High-tech project will restore recorded Native American voices

Cutting-edge optical scanning technique developed by the Berkeley Lab promises to revitalize these old, fragile recordings. 

UC Newsroom |

NIH grants to help turn discoveries into medical advances

UC Irvine, UC San Diego receive renewed Clinical and Translational Science Awards.

UC San Diego |

Gift will launch Scripps climate center

$5M gift will seed Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.

UC San Diego |

3-D printed tiny fish do more than swim

Synthetic microfish set the stage for 'smart' microrobots that can detoxify or deliver medications.