Meet Kirsten Howley, the real-life Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory astrophysicist working to prevent “Armageddon,” as UC celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb. 11).

During any other year, these groundbreaking advances would have been big news. Here’s some of what you may have missed while you were busy washing your hands.

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley and UCSF professor and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist, shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool for making targeted changes to the genome.

July is UV Safety Awareness Month. Everything you need to know to protect yourself is right here.

How UC research sounded the alarm on the ozone layer.

From destined for the drain to winning a Nobel Prize.

Forty with ties to the University of California recognized by the magazine as young leaders in their fields.

Now professor at The Rockefeller University, he shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

Not everyone can win a Nobel, but this is the next best thing. Prizes are announced starting Oct. 5.

The disease that has devastated crops in Florida and threatens California may finally be stoppable.

Understanding how dogs age can help us fight human aging.

What makes a jellyfish glow? For scientists, asking that simple question led to a powerful new tool that’s completely transformed medicine — and won the Nobel!