Astrobiologist investigates whether cosmic collisions were the key to earthly life.

Study finds lower greenhouse gas emissions on per-mile basis for driverless cars deployed as taxis — plus they're cost effective.

If you run into an old friend at the train station, your memory will forever link the person you saw with the place where you saw them. For the first time, researchers have been able to see that sort of link being created in people's brains.

In recent years, a host of charismatic wild species have returned to American cities in numbers not seen for generations.

Method modifies immune cells to attack the virus and could be used to treat other diseases.

With $1.5 million in National Science Foundation funding, a group of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and partner institutions will study the effects of a novel way of eradicating schistosomiasis.

The mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs gave rise to the modern ‘Age of Fishes.’

Institute targets deforestation and disease control in the world's second largest rainforest.

Study results could mean good news for people with osteoporosis or those with traumatic bone injuries.

A new study finds the answer may lie with family income.

Warming waters and fishing pressure are driving nesting seabirds away from their ancestral breeding ground in the Gulf of California into northern harbors.

UC Santa Cruz anthropology student traces java's route from Central America to California for senior thesis.