A dry winter has led to a fiery spring, and climate change may increase fire danger in the future.

Researchers are looking to the natural world for breakthrough ideas that can turn ordinary people into super humans.

DNA of people in high altitude locales may reveal how humans have adapted to different environments.

A class at UCLA teaches all about the science behind what makes lettuce crispy, coffee bitter, and apple pie truly tasty.

UC Berkeley researchers\' robotic legs might gain traction for future Martian rovers.

UC Davis researchers release thousands of baby salmon to determine if rice fields can stand in for diminishing wetlands.

UC Berkeley's Kathy Ann Miller reveals secrets of one of the greatest seaweed collections in the world.

Young researchers have spent the summer at UC Davis\' Genome Center working on what they hope will one day be the answer to cleaning up the world\'s landfills.

UC Riverside spider expert reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly about the eight-legged arachnids — and tells us how to deal with truly scary spiders.

Prions, long studied by UCSF professor and Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, build up in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and other dementias. Now they're linked to post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans and in the brain damage of athletes who have suffered repeated concussions.

Unprecedented study of 32 families generates mountains of data on "material culture" of modern society.

UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program finds that mix of toxins in butts pollute beaches, oceans and our bodies.