Two UC-affiliated companies that focus on climate change solutions have won the 2021 UC Startup Innovation Challenge, while five others take home awards for social impact.

UC Merced joins three other campuses to sustainably meet the challenge of boosting global food production by 70 percent by 2050.

Impress your friends — and Instagram — with this holiday superfood.

How two blind taste tests stunned the experts and changed the way the world drinks (and thinks about) wine.

Future doctors and nurses learn what nutrition really means to help patients down the line.

A new project will study whether edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.

Law students work alongside tribal leaders to assist in a longstanding project to restore access to ancestral resources.

Conservation aquaculture could bring more native oysters to plates and estuaries along the west coast.

Desalination can help meet growing water needs globally, but current techniques are limited. A new approach holds promise.

Researchers have identified a predictive causal role for specific cell types in the condition, which affects more than 1.6 million Americans.

Scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming planet.

A new study finds hundreds of public water systems are out of compliance, but points to solutions the state (and nation) can pursue.