UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab's Jennifer Doudna and Saul Perlmutter, and UCLA mathematician Terence Tao share $3 million awards.

The current Ebola outbreak shows how quickly diseases can spread with global jet travel.

High-tech collars enable scientists to record the energetics of mountain lion hunting behavior, showing how they overpower large prey.

Professors from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco receive nation's highest honor for contributions in science.

Team of engineering students develop an inexpensive, versatile pad to detect medical problems in infants.

Infants receiving different diets after birth develop distinct immune systems.

Thin sheets of ice push enormous rocks across the desert floor of Death Valley when conditions are just right, solving a decades-long mystery.

High levels of triclosan — a hormone disruptor — in antibacterial soap may pose a hazard to hospital workers, who must wash hands often.

In an ecosystem within us, microbes evolved to sway our food choices.

Thirteen-year project culminates with pharmaceutical firm sending 1.7 million treatments of semi-synthetic artemisinin.

Researchers synthesize a polymer that can repair itself in wet conditions.

Protein called reflectin could be used to improve performance of biomedical devices.