UC Santa Cruz |

Toy seal raises funds for the real thing

Marine biologist launches a limited run of cuddly 'Real Seal' toys — one for each of the 1,100 Hawaiian monk seals left in the world.
UC Riverside |

How Mosquitoes Are Drawn to Human Skin and Breath

Mosquitoes love the smell of our breath and skin. Researchers are devising compounds that they'll love a bit more.
UC Santa Cruz |

Slippery fault triggered monster quake, tsunami

Unprecedented 50-meter fault slip in temblor that devastated coastal Japan and caused damage an ocean away generated surprisingly little friction.
California Magazine |

Quake alert? There'll soon be an app for that

Smartphone technology will make it easier to expand early-warning networks.
NPR |

How to engineer the perfect cookie

The food and science folks at UCLA extend their expertise to cookies. Chemistry, they say, is the key to great baking.
KCET |

Race, class, fear and shame: transit barriers

UC Irvine study reveals bias against public transit trumps convenience and transit-first urban planning.
New York Times |

The troubles of building where faults collide

A stalled project to build two skyscrapers has become a symbol of whether developers can withstand the complications of working in quake-prone L.A.
UC Research Tumblr |

Microbial Dark Matter Video

Researchers estimate there are more undiscovered microbes on earth than stars in the sky, and UC scientists are part of the effort to illuminate this microbial "dark matter."
NPR |

Would You Eat Michael Pollan Microbe Cheese?

Making your own cheese and yogurt is all the rage. Now a UCLA scientist has taken the DIY craze to an entirely new level: making cheeses using the microcritters on human skin.
UC Davis |

Grape microbes add to wine's distinctive terroir

The microbial communities living on the surface of grapes may shape a wine’s terroir — the unique blend of vineyard soil and climate of every winegrowing region.
NPR |

Slathering spinach fields in poop, in the name of science

UC Davis scientists are mixing raw manure with salad greens in order to help protect us from E. coli and other food-borne bacteria.
UC Riverside |

License to ill

Firms that engaged in prior socially responsible behavior are more likely to then engage in socially irresponsible behavior.