A huge shift away from annual crops to nut trees has transformed the California farm belt over the past two decades and left farmers perilously vulnerable to the current severe drought.

UC San Diego's Brian Keating helped design, build and analyze data from the BICEP2 telescope that found evidence of “cosmic inflation” less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

UC Davis researchers flooded rice paddies to give young chinook salmon a spot to rest and feed as they migrate into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The three-year experiment has resulted in a dramatic increase in the size of migrating juvenile salmon every winter of the experiment.

Neurologists are still hunting for the source of the illness, and they're finding themselves hampered by delays in reporting cases and questions about how to even describe the disease.

Study exposes developmental problems in children born to mothers who toiled in California’s treated fields.

'Smart Diaphragm' — similar in size, shape to a contraceptive diaphragm — will monitor an expectant mother's cervix and, when necessary, send an alert that the woman may be going into premature labor.

Physicists have searched for a theory of quantum gravity for 80 years. A UCLA physicist is betting big on a once sidelined theory called supergravity.

How is California dealing with drought? A conversation with Doug Parker, director of the California Institute for Water and leader of the UC Agriculture & Natural Resources Water Quality, Quantity, and Security Strategic Initiative.

How soon can we expect to see brain implants for perfect memory, enhanced vision, hypernormal focus or an expert golf swing?