New Scripps center launches to study how marine environments influenced ancient societies. Hopefully there's no snakes.

We rely on trees to process carbon. But wildfires and climate change could wreak havoc on that process.

The stereoscopic vision of seamstresses is superior to that of surgeons, researchers find.

Natalie Batalha's team has discovered nearly 4,000 planets in the cosmos, some of which may support life.

Researchers and students work together in the region they share.

Ph.D. student Sara ElShafie works with Pixar story artists to help her fellow scientists better communicate.

A new study shows how our muscles react as we process written language, an advance in the field of embodied cognition.

UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna reflects on how her gene editing tool may alter the world as we know it.

UC Irvine-led analysis of data from India could have dire implications for the future.

On World Oceans Day, check out the work UC Santa Barbara is doing to preserve our vast marine ecosystems.

Discovery of 300,000-year-old human ancestors pushes back our origins by 100,000 years.

It's a leap forward with potential applications that are even more dazzling.