Mindy Lubber and UC Irvine's Jay Famiglietti: Food production, the world’s biggest water user, is a major underlying cause of dropping water tables and sinking land in the drought-plagued Central Valley and around the globe.

UC San Diego tops assessment of contributions to the public interest for sixth-straight year and six UC campuses make top 20.

To most of us, dust is just something we clean off our furniture; but to scientists, dust can cause big problems in the lab. UC San Diego's Janelle Shane explains how just one of these particles can ruin microscopic components.

According to the California Biomass Collaborative at UC Davis, anaerobic digesters, which convert waste into biogas and power, can be a good way for large farms to minimize waste and create a value-added product at the same time.

Induced pluripotent stem cells can be differentiated into various types of functional cells — including retinal pigment epithelium cells destined for the eye, which are less likely to be rejected by the immune system. 

A small yet powerful antenna would allow the Mars rover to communicate directly with Earth, enabling much more data to be sent back and forth.

The Citizen Science Tahoe mobile app — designed by a UC Davis freshman — lets ordinary folks share what they see at Lake Tahoe with researchers at UC Davis: water level, clarity, temperature and more.

A quake centered below the Santa Barbara Channel could send inundating waves toward Ventura and Oxnard.

Mom was right about washing the greens: Researchers believe peaks and valleys in leaves could be key to numerous bacterial outbreaks involving leafy green vegetables.

Biologists discover gliding, hunting arachnids in South American forests.

The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers and cropland out of production than in 2014, according to the latest drought impact report by UC Davis.

Warmer-than-usual waters in the North Atlantic contribute to both phenomena.