UCLA Spark utilizes social media to connect donors with faculty and students across campus.

With venture capital funds dwindling, entrepreneurial scientists are turning to online crowdfunding sources.

UC Riverside’s baseball team struck out less frequently in the 2013 season after taking part in brain-training research that significantly improved the vision of individual players.

Mount Hood study: Liquid magma, necessary for eruption, is uncommon.

New study shows what happens during the destruction of a star as it falls into a black hole, contradicting a 2012 report of the disruption of an exotic helium star.

Funding reflects quality of research and enables scientists to continue pioneering efforts.

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage — and then what?

Unhampered by borders and laws, cybercriminals present new security threats.

Researchers are analyzing ocean vegetation to try to detect radioactivity stemming from the quake- and tsunami-damaged nuclear plant in Japan.

Infants not only pick up on their mother’s stress, but they also show corresponding physiological changes.

When signals bounced off the lunar surface returned surprisingly faint echoes on full moon nights, scientists sought an explanation in reason rather than superstition.

Berkeley Lab scientist has devised a method of automating the screening process; through his startup, he hopes to make it as commonplace as a cholesterol test.