UC Santa Cruz |

Singing from memory unlocks a surprisingly common musical superpower

Go ahead and sing in the shower — you might just have perfect pitch.
UC San Francisco |

Here’s what to know about the mpox outbreak emergency

A physician-researcher explains different variants of the disease and risks to different populations.
UC San Diego |

Presence of liquid water most probable explanation for data collected by Mars lander

Researchers infer that stores of water must exist in planet’s crust.
UCLA |

Molecule restores cognition and memory in Alzheimer’s disease mouse study

A molecule identified and synthesized by UCLA Health researchers has the potential to revitalize memory and cognition for several conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and depression.
UC Natural Reserve System |

Improving predictions of plant species survival with the California poppy

Professors Elsa Cleland of UC San Diego and Jason Sexton of UC Merced will quantify genetic diversity using seeds collected from widespread wild populations, and monitor the fates of those populations in the wild.
Los Alamos National Laboratory |

Los Alamos machine learning model takes a big step forward in predicting earthquakes

Scientists used powerful modeling software to find patterns in the continuous seismic waveforms during a series of stick-slip, magnitude-5 earthquakes.
UC Berkeley |

How urban raccoons adapt to new foraging challenges

A new study documents how these wily wildlife use innovative problem-solving skills when foraging for food.
UC San Francisco |

What to know about long COVID and how to reduce your risk

UCSF scientists are seeking to solve COVID-19’s greatest riddles with sophisticated imaging techniques that have found long-term immune activation throughout the body.
UCLA |

Scientific definition of a planet says it must orbit our sun. A new proposal would change that

Planetary scientists at UCLA are proposing a new definition of a planet to replace one that many researchers view as sun-centric and outdated.
UC San Francisco |

Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones

Researchers at UCSF and UC Davis solved a long-standing puzzle on how the bones of breastfeeding women stay strong even as they lose calcium to milk.
UC Davis |

The salmon diaries: Life before and after Klamath Dam removal

Salmon ‘tell’ scientists their life story as decades-old dams come down.
UC Santa Cruz |

Scientists find that small regions of the brain can take micro-naps while the rest of the brain is awake and vice versa

The study more generally shows how previously ignored fast brain waves define basic patterns of sleep and wake.