Researchers have used light to erase specific memories in mice, and proved a basic theory of how different parts of the brain work together to retrieve episodic memories.

UC scientists were big winners in latest round of funding, with money going to projects at UCSF, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Diego.

Institute sponsors seminar exploring the solar industry present and future, and the many creative initiatives being developed by UC.

Global ocean warming appears to have been underestimated by 24 to 58 percent.

Curiosity, while perhaps still dangerous for cats, serves as motivation for humans to acquire and retain information.

High-tech collars enable scientists to record the energetics of mountain lion hunting behavior, showing how they overpower large prey.

Many white Americans are becoming less enthusiastic about diversity and multiculturalism as the U.S. moves toward becoming a minority-majority nation.

In a small-scale study, nine of 10 people with the disease displayed subjective or objective improvement in their memories beginning within three to six months.

Scientists have pinpointed the brain mechanism by which we latch on to a particular face, even when it changes.

Accents are extremely difficult to lose because our infant brains codify a lifetime's worth of sounds before we've spoken our first word.

UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis helped produce the first Ocean Health Index that includes all the Earth’s oceans.

Projects led by UC scientists will receive more than $10 million of the $46 million being awarded as part of the Obama BRAIN Initiative.