Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology and social behavior at UC Irvine School of Law, discusses the phenomenon of false memory.

After starting the new year with a dry month, California soon will be falling off the wagon. Scientists have been tracking a tentacle of moisture-laden tropical air—a so-called atmospheric river—that’s supposed to make it rain.

As the California drought enters its fourth year, scientists — among them, UC Riverside's Sean Cutler — are trying to genetically engineer plants that survive on less water.

Aren't we all? It's the work of brain science, and UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga discusses where the next big breakthroughs in understanding the brain will come from.

Ruku is the first Raspberry PI Rubik's Cube-solving robot, and has the potential to inspire students to be interested in STEM fields.

A Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher is one of the authors of a new study that interprets the acoustics of glacial melting.

Decades ago, abalone was a common seafood menu item, but overfishing wiped it from restaurants and the ocean. In 2012, the abalone breeding program at UC Davis' Bodega Marine Laboratory had just 70 abalone. Since then, their shellfish number in the thousands.

In the near future, the Nutrition Facts label on the back of packaged foods will have a new look and more information. UC Davis' Kimber Stanhope explains how this will reveal the amount of sugar that is added to our foods.

UCSC's Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz gives us a glimpse of how he visualizes his research. Since much of what he studies is abstract calculations and theories, he shows us how important it is to have visuals to both explain and comprehend his work.

A Q&A with UCSF pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig about sugar.

Have you heard of food deserts? You may even live in one. The USDA defines a food desert as parts of the country that lack fresh fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods. They’re usually found in impoverished urban areas. Shashi Buluswar, the executive director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies, explains why healthy foods are often not available in low-income neighborhoods.

'Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely,' said the British historian Lord Acton. Unfortunately, this is not entirely a myth. UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner explains some of the ways in which power encourages individuals to act on their own whims, desires and impulses.