Since Cal's tech-transfer office opened, more than 800 companies have sponsored research projects, investing important resources in many areas and resulting in significant patent and licensing fees.

Physicists have searched for a theory of quantum gravity for 80 years. A UCLA physicist is betting big on a once sidelined theory called supergravity.

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

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.

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

When adults are dishonest with their offspring, the children mirror that behavior.

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

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.

The challenge: how to keep fusion going long enough.

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

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

Sociologist examines the ubiquity of shame and its role in aggression and depression.