Astronomers discover a bright galaxy more than 13 billion light years from Earth — the most distant known, dating back to when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age.

If trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with effects of climate change, will present huge risk to global food security over next century, soil scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced warn.

Low-income teens are unable to participate in the social media conversations of their wealthier peers — pointing to deeper forms of digital inequity.

Borehole seismometers will monitor faint tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault — part of UC Berkeley’s TremorScope project to determine the link between tremors and earthquakes.

Novel retinitis pigmentosa therapy has been created by stem cell researchers.

Efforts to predict the emergence and spread of sudden oak death, an infectious disease that kills oaks and other trees, have gotten a big boost from the work of grassroots volunteers.

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere are finding increased numbers of baby starfish in some locations. Juveniles may be less susceptible to the virus that has decimated sea stars on the Pacific coast.

At systemwide research communications contest, graduate students captivate audiences while sticking to the mantra: Keep it simple.

Seth Riley, who teaches at UCLA and works for the National Park Service, has tracked 40 mountain lions living in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Encryption system allows smartphone and tablet users to store data in one or multiple clouds without using a lot of a mobile device’s resources.

Worrisome news for potential missions to Mars: Long-term galactic cosmic ray exposure can cause permanent dementia-like cognitive impairments.

UC’s emerging scientists and scholars share innovation, expertise.