UC San Diego researchers use a minuscule device for tracking speed and mileage to stop a sports car in its tracks.

Pupil shape — horizontal, vertical or circular — is linked to animals’ place in the ecological web.

Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science is showcasing how to reduce processing costs, improve wine quality and protect the planet.

PrimeUC is collaborating with Johnson & Johnson Innovation, LLC to give one $150,000 award and three $50,000 awards to companies with early-stage innovations related to therapeutics, consumer health, medical devices and diagnostics.

UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology researchers are studying drought's impact on Coachella Valley.

A team of electrical engineers at UC San Diego has created a design to transform a thin sheet of Teflon into a cloak that's less detectable to wave frequencies, like light and radar.

If you run into an old friend at the train station, your memory will forever link the person you saw with the place where you saw them. For the first time, researchers have been able to see that sort of link being created in people's brains.

Study, co-authored by a UC Berkeley professor, suggests that smiling at or sharing a positive moment with someone of another race can have a big impact on others.

Fire ecologist spells out what could be ahead for the Southland in this fourth year of severe drought. (Image courtesy of Cal Fire)

UC was granted 453 utility patents in 2014 for discoveries made by its researchers. As of June 2014, the university had 4,448 active U.S. patents in total.

UC Santa Cruz arboretum works with local tribes to apply traditional knowledge of forest stewardship to preserve water and create wildfire buffers.

Can science solve the public's revulsion to recycled water? A UC Santa Cruz professor strives to make it happen.