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.

Venture capital backs company — co-founded by a Berkeley Lab scientist —developing a battery using a nonflammable electrolyte.

Combining biomass electricity production with carbon capture could enable power generators to store more carbon than they emit.

Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology and social behavior at UC Irvine School of Law, discusses the phenomenon of false memory.

Grants will go to a diverse array of projects, from developing an implantable device that could correct memory impairment to an effort to help California better manage its water resources.

Girls of color are disproportionately impacted by school discipline policies and excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, according to a new report co-authored by two UCLA law professors.

Funding support provided by the National Institutes of Health remains crucial to finding treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

Seventeen-year quest to take non-stop look at sunlit side of Earth finally comes to fruition for Scripps scientist.

After starting the new year with a dry month, California soon will be falling off the wagon. Scientists have been tracking a tentacle of moisture-laden tropical air—a so-called atmospheric river—that’s supposed to make it rain.

A new study by UCLA researchers found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brain’s gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons.