Income inequality has increased in the United States — and wealth inequality has been increasing too, as a new study by researchers from UC Berkeley and elsewhere shows.
A huge shift away from annual crops to nut trees has transformed the California farm belt over the past two decades and left farmers perilously vulnerable to the current severe drought.
UC San Diego's Brian Keating helped design, build and analyze data from the BICEP2 telescope that found evidence of “cosmic inflation” less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
UC Davis researchers flooded rice paddies to give young chinook salmon a spot to rest and feed as they migrate into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The three-year experiment has resulted in a dramatic increase in the size of migrating juvenile salmon every winter of the experiment.
In Adam Gazzaley’s new lab, the brain is a kaleidoscope of colors, bursting and pulsing in real time to the rhythm of electronic music. He also wants this to lead to treatments for a variety of brain diseases.
Neurologists are still hunting for the source of the illness, and they're finding themselves hampered by delays in reporting cases and questions about how to even describe the disease.
'Smart Diaphragm' — similar in size, shape to a contraceptive diaphragm — will monitor an expectant mother's cervix and, when necessary, send an alert that the woman may be going into premature labor.