Collecting, pressing and identifying plant specimens may seem quaint, but the process is key to helping scientists understand our environmental future.

When Karen Andrade came to UC Berkeley, she was surprised to discover how challenging it was for outside organizations to partner with students and faculty on research projects. She came up with the idea of Science Shop to fill the gap.

The brain's speech area, named after 19th century French physician Pierre Paul Broca, shuts down when we talk out loud, according to a new study that challenges the long-held belief that 'Broca's area' governs all aspects of speech production.

The iron in our blood, the silicon in your computer, the oxygen that we breath — all of those elements were synthesized inside a star. UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz walks us through the process from a star's beginning to its death.

After falling in love as UC Berkeley graduate students, Arthur and Elaine Aron have studied love for nearly 50 years.

New report by UC Santa Barbara-based research center calculates the magnitude of waste going into the world's seas.

New incubator/accelerator program for student entrepreneurs opens on campus.

Jed Brubaker’s graduate research at UC Irvine guides Facebook’s new policy on postmortem account stewardship.

Gift to UC Riverside from former chair of UC Regents will support effort aimed at solving poverty-related issues in the Inland Empire region.

Children exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents while in the womb are up to two to three times more likely to develop the disease.

Can something as simple and small as a gene impact something as complex as marriage? UC Berkeley researchers have found a link between relationship fulfillment and a gene variant, or allele, of the serotonin transporter gene.

Lab will join collaborative research team that intends to build the world’s first neural system to enable naturalistic feeling and movements in prosthetic hands.