Short sleepers are four times more likely to catch a cold, suggesting a rested immune system works better.

AffordableSchools.net named five UC campuses to its top 50 Most Entrepreneurial Schools in America.

Thanks to its prevalence as garbage in the ocean, plastics have been ingested by nine out of every 10 seabirds now living.

Citizen scientists are joining botanists to find and measure California's plant diversity.

Technique produces tiny models of human tissue, or ‘organoids,’ that can be used in cancer research and drug screening.

Solar laser beams will push that deadly space rock out of a collision course with Earth: It sounds far-fetched, but it may be closer to reality than one might think.

Story of the friendship between a stem cell scientist and a young athlete — and a message of encouragement for LGBT youth — is featured on ESPN.

1 in 5 older adults have incomes above the federal poverty level, but still struggle to pay their expenses.

Virus turns host immune cells into suicide machines, using them to spread the virus and cause the progression from infection to disease.