UC Irvine |

Titanium clubs can cause golf course fires

Sparks fly when head hits rocks in the rough, potentially igniting brush
Science Today |

A conversation about the California drought

How is California dealing with drought? A conversation with Doug Parker, director of the California Institute for Water and leader of the UC Agriculture & Natural Resources Water Quality, Quantity, and Security Strategic Initiative.
Wall Street Journal |

The future of brain implants

How soon can we expect to see brain implants for perfect memory, enhanced vision, hypernormal focus or an expert golf swing?
UC San Diego |

Lied-to children more likely to cheat and lie

When adults are dishonest with their offspring, the children mirror that behavior.
UC Santa Cruz |

Bringing plant back from the brink of extinction

Experimental reintroductions are helping to establish new populations of a critically endangered wetland plant.
UCLA |

Geographers create 'easy button' to calculate river flows from space

The frustrated attempts of a graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.
New York Times |

Fusion: machinery of an energy dream

The challenge: how to keep fusion going long enough.
UC San Diego |

Glimpse of Big Bang 'fingerprint'

Cosmologists detect curling patterns that appear to have resulted from the initial expansion of the universe.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Long dry spells ahead

By century's end, some parts of the world will have as much as a month less rainfall.
UC Santa Barbara |

You should be ashamed — or maybe not

Sociologist examines the ubiquity of shame and its role in aggression and depression.
UC San Diego |

What we're learning from selfies

All those self-portraits are opening our eyes to social trends.
UC Davis |

Lake Tahoe's long-term clarity trending toward stability

For the last decade, the lake's iconic blue waters have stayed clearer than in past decades, but still haven't reached goals for clarity.