The insects smell “ant body odor,” helping them distinguish intruders from safe fellow-ants in their colonies.

A decade later, Cal students are still keeping their pledge to New Orleans.

As universities nationally struggle to recruit more diverse students to their graduate programs, one innovative UC effort is having noteworthy results.

In competition for mates, males recognize the distinctive calls of their rivals and avoid costly fights by remembering who's dominant.

Researchers are closer to discovering the genes involved in the creature’s ability to change skin color and texture, and to move its eight arms independently.

UC "dominates" rankings with five campuses among magazine's top 20 "Cool Schools" list of sustainable universities.

Pupil shape — horizontal, vertical or circular — is linked to animals’ place in the ecological web.

UC San Diego's Gradvantage seeks to prepare scholars for a range of jobs in a changing economy.

San Jacinto, San Andreas interaction weakens earthquake shaking near them, study lead by UC Irvine finds.

UC Santa Cruz ecologist Barry Sinervo studies dying species like a detective at a murder scene, hoping to help preserve threatened species.