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Prepare to be amazed! UC graduate students wow with 3-minute talks at Grad Slam

Get a master class — in brief — on cutting-edge UC discoveries as graduate students explain their complex research in just 3 minutes flat.

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UC Newsroom |

UC graduate programs and schools lead the nation in the 2025-26 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings

UC once again earned top marks, including a slew of No. 1 rankings, across its schools of business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing, and programs in humanities and the social sciences.

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UC San Diego |

Dogs understand words from soundboard buttons, study reveals

The study is the first empirical paper to emerge from the world’s largest longitudinal project on button-trained pets.
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UCLA |

Dark matter could have helped make supermassive black holes in the early universe

Radiation from dark matter may have kept hydrogen gas hot enough to condense into black holes.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down

It’s not quite heat vision, but mosquitoes do use thermal infrared to find human hosts.
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UC Berkeley |

Stop worrying about being happy

New psychology research suggests worrying about being happy makes people unhappy.
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UC Newsroom |

UC study addresses the nexus of the housing crisis, climate change, and habitat loss

Researchers funded by a California Climate Action Seed and Matching Grant are examining how the urban housing crisis drives development to natural areas.
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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.
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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.
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UC Irvine |

Helping students, parents prepare for the new school year

In this podcast, psychologist Jessica Borelli offers strategies for easing the back-to-school transition.
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UC Berkeley |

To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say

UC Berkeley archeologists say the findings might help resolve the debate about Clovis points and reshape how we think about hunting some 13,000 years ago.
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UCLA |

Venting your frustrations can make friends like you better — if you do it right

Psychologists at UCLA find it isn’t cathartic but can strengthen bonds that might pay off in the future.
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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.
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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.