Tots outperform college students in certain learning tasks because they are more flexible and less biased in their ideas about cause and effect.

Crumbling asteroid has divided into as many as 10 pieces, the Hubble telescope has revealed; its breakup may be due to the effect of sunlight.

Girls who play with Barbie dolls tend to see fewer career options available to them, compared with the options available to boys.

Explore how the the nature of highly seasonal rainfall cycles and periodic fires create conditions that have shaped Mediterranean climate ecosystems.

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers are investigating how shapes and surface texture influence the adhesion of infectious Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria. Their work could lead to a more nuanced understanding of what makes a surface less inviting to bacteria.

A new study reveals how much of our food has contributed to the diets of Yosemite bears over the past century.

The latest in energy efficiency: a backpack-mounted system for quickly mapping energy use throughout a building and identifying ways to reduce it.

In California, older adults are paying a steep price for housing their boomerang kids.

UC researchers offer insights on coping with the state's extended dry spell.

"Tiger Mom" may be off base: UC Irvine/UCLA study of Los Angeles immigrants finds that when we measure success as progress from generation to generation, Mexican-Americans come out ahead.

Forty-five years after scientists hypothesized that global warming would make Arctic Ocean surfaces darker, Scripps team determines, through satellite data, how much the planet’s albedo has diminished.

Researchers demonstrate a holographic memory device that could improve storage capacity and processing capabilities in electronics.