As the California drought enters its fourth year, scientists — among them, UC Riverside's Sean Cutler — are trying to genetically engineer plants that survive on less water.

Aren't we all? It's the work of brain science, and UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga discusses where the next big breakthroughs in understanding the brain will come from.

Ruku is the first Raspberry PI Rubik's Cube-solving robot, and has the potential to inspire students to be interested in STEM fields.

Taking in such spine-tingling wonders as the Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel ceiling or Schubert’s “Ave Maria” may give a boost to the body’s defense system.

UCLA research played key role in development of Ibrance, targeting estrogen-receptor–positive breast cancer.

Ten recipients from six UC campuses receive awards to pursue new technologies intended to accelerate advances moving stem cell therapies out of the lab and into the clinic.

A Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher is one of the authors of a new study that interprets the acoustics of glacial melting.

Study documents disappearance of pikas from low-elevation sites and shows how ongoing global warming will further restrict their range in the future.

Geographer warns that for the past four decades, global warming — in the guise of heat waves — has been amplified in cities.

Decades ago, abalone was a common seafood menu item, but overfishing wiped it from restaurants and the ocean. In 2012, the abalone breeding program at UC Davis' Bodega Marine Laboratory had just 70 abalone. Since then, their shellfish number in the thousands.

In the near future, the Nutrition Facts label on the back of packaged foods will have a new look and more information. UC Davis' Kimber Stanhope explains how this will reveal the amount of sugar that is added to our foods.

Researchers from UC San Diego and UC San Francisco join forces to determine how all of the components of a cancer cell interact.