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A tale of Tinder wins the day at the 10th annual UC Grad Slam

The hotly anticipated annual contest offered a peek at groundbreaking research powered by graduate students across the University of California system.

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UC graduate programs and schools lead the nation in the 2025-26 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings

UC once again earned top marks, including a slew of No. 1 rankings, across its schools of business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing, and programs in humanities and the social sciences.

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UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center |

Why going offline might save us

What happens when we replace sky-gazing with screen-scrolling? Discover how digital life impacts happiness and what Gen Z can teach us about reclaiming control over our well-being.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Jammin' with Ronan: Rhythmically trained sea lion returns for an encore—and performs as well as humans

Ronan, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, continues to challenge our understanding of biomusicality.
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UC San Diego |

At UC San Diego, NOAA collaboration provides backbone for global environmental intelligence

NOAA support helps protect monitoring programs, weather forecasting, and technology development essential for public safety.
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UC San Francisco |

How ‘magic mushrooms’ could help Parkinson’s disease patients

A first-of-its-kind study tested the safety of psilocybin and found that patients experienced clinically significant improvements in mood, cognition, and motor function that lasted for weeks after the drug was out of their systems.
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UC Irvine |

UC Irvine scientists among winners of Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

$3 million award recognizes research achievements at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
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UC Newsroom |

11 UC faculty honored with 2025 Guggenheim fellowships

The prestigious award, now in its 100th year, is granted to distinguished artists and scholars and provides support for their creative and research endeavors.
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UC Health |

‘Writing the new history for health care’: UC nurses set a vision for the future of AI in nursing

UC nurses are at the forefront of efforts to figure out how to best use AI in health care so they can spend more time with patients.
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UC Davis |

What to know about processed and ultra-processed food

Experts weigh in on the debate behind how processed foods could affect health and how the food industry could improve.
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UC Newsroom |

What makes a UC education stand apart? Opportunities for hands-on learning and undergraduate research

For these UC students, hands-on research has led to class credit, money for school and a path to their dream future.
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UCLA |

Bursting your bubble: Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows

A person happily gnawing away on a large piece of gum could unleash more than 3,000 microplastic particles, according to the UCLA team.
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UC Santa Cruz |

Lick Observatory to mark 150 years of discovery and innovation

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking discoveries and innovation, training the next generation of astronomers and astrophysicists.
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UC Newsroom |

4 California critters making a comeback with help from UC researchers

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating stories from the past year of UC research that illustrate the resilience of life on our planet.