UC Irvine |
Shooting for the stars
Mexican Space Agency hopes partnership with UC Irvine will help develop program’s ‘human capital.’
Capital Public Radio |
Endangered Delta smelt may be extinct
Latest trawl survey found six fish, instead of hundreds.
UC Merced |
Think your morals are unshakeable? Think again
Moral decisions can be swayed by tracking one's eye movements.
UC Riverside |
Prize-winning explanations for those mystery rings
UC Riverside scientists solicited the public's help in solving an ancient riddle in paleontology.
UC Berkeley |
New chameleon-like material changes color
Taking inspiration from nature, engineers have created an ultra-thin film that can shift colors as easily as a chameleon's skin when pulled or twisted.
UC San Diego |
Understanding how neurons shape memories of smells
Discovery has implications for understanding epilepsy, the cause of which also stems from the olfactory cortex.
UC Berkeley |
Bioengineers put human hearts on a chip to aid drug screening
'Heart-on-a-chip' effectively uses human cardiac muscle cells derived from adult stem cells to model how a human heart reacts to cardiovascular medications.
UC Santa Barbara |
Environment in the African savanna linked to human health
Community ecologist spotlights how environmental management affects disease emergence.
UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara |
First discovery of a distant star exploding into a supernova
Finding, using multiple images that reached Earth at different times, advances the understanding of dark matter.
UCLA |
Researchers document disaster recovery in, around Fukushima
Video, photos, interviews and mapping tools capture the extent of damage four years after the 2011 quake and tsunami.
National Geographic |
Lack of snow leaves California's water tower running low
Rising temperatures and declining snowpack in the mountains mean that the drought across the western U.S. is about to get even worse.
UC Newsroom |
Research collaboration will focus on immigration in California
Project involving five UC campuses will complement the systemwide efforts of the UC-Mexico Initiative.