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UC Newsroom |
A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam
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UC Newsroom |
UC graduate programs and schools lead the nation in the 2025-26 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings
Lawrence Livermore Lab |
Getting more life out of lithium-ion batteries
Model predicts how carbon components — key factor in battery performance in cell phones and the like — will perform as electrodes.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Has Antarctic Sea ice expansion been overestimated?
Measurements wrong due to an error in the way satellite data was processed, research from Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests.
UC San Diego |
Parents rank their obese children as 'very healthy'
UC San Diego-led study suggests that parents often do not recognize the potential health consequences of weight gain
UC Berkeley |
Birthday bash to celebrate laser inventor Charles Townes’ 99th
UC Berkeley professor won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the laser.
UCLA |
Low-income students in high-performing schools less likely to engage in risky behaviors
A new UCLA-led study suggests that a higher quality educational environment may help improve health outcomes.
UC Riverside |
Wide-faced men negotiate nearly $2,200 larger signing bonus
UC Riverside study finds men with wider faces are successful negotiating for themselves, but not so when it comes to compromise and collaboration.
UC Irvine |
The facts behind science fiction
With Comic-Con looming, UC Irvine professor says our fascination with superheroes provides fertile ground for teaching fundamentals of physics.
UC Santa Barbara |
This is your brain on drugs
With a $1 million award from the Keck Foundation, scientists at UC Santa Barbara will research who could be more vulnerable to addiction.
UC Berkeley |
Tiny laser sensor heightens bomb detection sensitivity
New technology under development at UC Berkeley could soon give bomb-sniffing dogs some serious competition.
UC Riverside |
Catching grease to cut grill pollution
Students design tray that when placed under grill grates cuts harmful emissions from one pollutant by 70 percent.
UC Davis |
Syrian war producing ‘lost generation’ of college-age students
“The war will end but the young people who would be integral in rebuilding the country are being left behind.”
Lawrence Livermore Lab |
Giant laser recreates extreme conditions inside planets
Using the world's largest laser, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have created the extreme temperatures and pressures found inside planets like Jupiter.