Negativity tends to boomerang back on those who start it — and persists much longer than positive comments do.
UC San Diego |
Will changing how we vote change who votes?
As California counties begin to implement Voter’s Choice Act, researchers assess effects on turnout and representation.
UC Santa Barbara |
A monster for our times
Mary Shelley breathed life into Frankenstein more than 200 years ago, and her classic novel only grows more relevant.
UCLA |
Why so many U.S. students aren’t learning math
Sixty percent of community college students are not qualified to take a college math course.
UC Newsroom |
Nine UC faculty elected to National Academy of Medicine
More than 200 UC-affiliated professionals have received this prestigious honor since 1970.
UC Davis |
Moringa — the next superfood?
The “miracle tree” that could help feed the world.
UCSF |
The Kidney Project and the bioartificial pancreas: When inspiration strikes twice
Shuvo Roy is not content to just work on the world's first bioartificial kidney. Now he's doing the same for the pancreas.
UC Berkeley |
Why we think women sound shrill
Why do men seem to speak with more authority? Because we've engineered them to sound that way, says Tom McEnaney.
UC Newsroom |
UC’s fresh crop of MacArthur geniuses
UC Davis professor Sarah Stewart — who literally shoots for the moon — is among five new UC-affiliated MacArthur fellows.
UCLA |
How a UCLA philosophy professor helped construct ‘The Good Place’
‘The Trolley Problem’ is just one of the thought experiments that make the show tick.
UC Newsroom |
The way we've been thinking about olive oil is all wrong.
Olive oils can be appreciated like wines — and the UC Davis Olive Center wants you to have a taste.
UC Berkeley |
UC Berkeley research leads to Nobel Prize-winning immunotherapy
James Allison shares the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries he made at UC Berkeley that revolutionized the treatment of cancer.