Discovery has implications for understanding epilepsy, the cause of which also stems from the olfactory cortex.

'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.

Community ecologist spotlights how environmental management affects disease emergence.

Finding, using multiple images that reached Earth at different times, advances the understanding of dark matter.

Video, photos, interviews and mapping tools capture the extent of damage four years after the 2011 quake and tsunami.

Rising temperatures and declining snowpack in the mountains mean that the drought across the western U.S. is about to get even worse.

Project involving five UC campuses will complement the systemwide efforts of the UC-Mexico Initiative.

A new simple tool developed by nanoengineers at UC San Diego is opening the door to an era when anyone will be able to build sensors, anywhere.

A growing body of research suggests that extreme weather — using Syria as an example — increases the chances of violence, from individual attacks to full-scale wars.

Research and outreach efforts will help UC become first major university to achieve carbon neutrality.

Which one better preserves the flavor of wine? UC Davis wine chemist Andrew Waterhouse is on the case.

Tracks by swimming reptiles benefited from delayed ecologic recovery during the Early Triassic.