UC Office of the President |

UC gets stem cell grants

12 UC scientists awarded for research covering areas such as Alzheimer's, heart disease, MS.
UC Berkeley |

Water shortages pit trout against vineyards

UC Berkeley study links higher death rates for juvenile steelhead trout with low water levels and vineyard acreage upstream.
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What steers vampire bats to blood

Researchers have discovered how vampire bats find the best spots to bite their prey.
UC Santa Barbara |

Ocean acidification study clarifies effects of CO2

Might a penguin's next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe?
UCLA |

Evolution is written all over your face

UCLA biologists working as "evolutionary detectives" offer some answers as to why the faces of primates are so dramatically different from one another.
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Plastic found in 9 percent of 'garbage patch' fishes

The first scientific results from an ambitious voyage led by a group of graduate students from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offer a stark view of human pollution and its infiltration of an area of the ocean that has been labeled as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
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A year of protest, progress and a very special prize

Just as Time magazine named the Protester as its person of the year, so did unrest shape much of 2011 for the University of California.

Reverberations from January and February's anti-Mubarek protests in Egypt were felt halfway around the world, as UC took emergency measures to evacuate 30 students, faculty and staff enrolled in a study abroad program and taking part in an archaeological dig.

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Researchers discuss sugar’s highs, lows

America's growing sweet tooth is super-sizing waistlines and the nation's health care price tag, warn University of California researchers.

People in the U.S. are eating 21 times more sweet stuff today than the pilgrims and pioneers did, according to data presented by scientists at a symposium on sugar and other sweeteners, sponsored by the Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment (COAST) at UCSF, the UC Office of the President, UC Berkeley and UC Davis.

UC Newsroom |

Seeding innovation

Long before UC Berkeley author Michael Pollan told us omnivores had a dilemma in books that questioned the industrial food complex, college students were at the forefront of a movement to rethink what we eat.

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when organic was a foreign word to most Americans, students at UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz were part of a wave of environmental activism that sought alternatives to agricultural methods that distanced people from farms and relied on heavy use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers.

UC Merced |

Air pollution results from sugarcane ethanol production

MERCED — The burning of sugarcane fields prior to harvest for ethanol production can create air pollution that detracts from the biofuel's overall sustainability, according to research published recently by a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California, Merced.

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How the Milky Way got its spiral arms

UC Irvine astronomers have shown how the Milky Way galaxy's iconic spiral arms form.
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For the birds, location matters when foraging

Location matters for birds on the hunt for caterpillars, according to researchers at UC Irvine and Wesleyan University.