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.

UC Santa Cruz researcher's finding that scars from environmental stresses can be passed on from one generation to the next proves to be an advance in the new field of epigenetics.

New sources of information fuel both knowledge and emergency response.

The performance and health of food-producing animals consuming genetically engineered feed, first introduced 18 years ago, has been comparable to that of animals consuming non-GE feed.

UC Berkeley, UCSF and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have decided to invest in high-risk, high-gain projects that could jump-start our understanding of the brain.

Greater utilization of plentiful natural gas could delay switch to renewable energy.

How hot do you like your peppers? Researchers at the University of California are working the heat levels of the jalapeño pepper down to a science.

Annual population census indicates the threatened species is slowly swimming toward recovery.

How cool is your roof? If you live in the California cities of Bakersfield, Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco or San Jose, you can find out with Berkeley Lab's interactive map. It's part of the lab's heat island research.

A new study suggests that maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleeping well through the stressful times may buffer against the negative impacts of stress — on a cellular level.