They're 492 million years old and are in Wisconsin, and researchers at UC Riverside want your help in figuring them out. (There's a prize for whoever comes up with the best 'natural explanation.')

Engineers and other researchers at UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz and UCLA are studying slime and other properties of the humble banana slug (which happens to be the Santa Cruz mascot).

Gregory Weiss, UC Irvine chemistry professor, talks about 'unboiling' egg white proteins and returning them to their original state. The ability to quickly restore molecular proteins could slash biotechnology costs and dramatically reduce the costs for cancer treatments.

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.