Can video games be an effective teaching tool in the classroom? UC San Diego computer scientist Sarah Guthals believes they can be. With her startup ThoughtSTEM, she’s working with teachers to bring computer science into the K-12 curriculum.

UC San Diego researchers use a minuscule device for tracking speed and mileage to stop a sports car in its tracks.

International team with multiple UC researchers pinpoints young, giant planet with characteristics shared by those in our solar system.

The insects smell “ant body odor,” helping them distinguish intruders from safe fellow-ants in their colonies.

They gather in groups, scare their prey, and get far more intimate than most other sea creatures.

In competition for mates, males recognize the distinctive calls of their rivals and avoid costly fights by remembering who's dominant.

Researchers are closer to discovering the genes involved in the creature’s ability to change skin color and texture, and to move its eight arms independently.

With tree canopies burned away, recovering landscapes become home to transplants like manzanita and monkey flower.

Pupil shape — horizontal, vertical or circular — is linked to animals’ place in the ecological web.

San Jacinto, San Andreas interaction weakens earthquake shaking near them, study lead by UC Irvine finds.

UC Santa Cruz ecologist Barry Sinervo studies dying species like a detective at a murder scene, hoping to help preserve threatened species.

State initiative provides $1.2 million for the Genomics Institute's California Kids Cancer Comparison project.