Tech companies are funding research to find strategies to recruit and retain women and minorities in computer science majors.

If trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with effects of climate change, will present huge risk to global food security over next century, soil scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced warn.

CellScope technology could help revive efforts to wipe out diseases in Africa by providing critical information to health providers in the field.

Low-income teens are unable to participate in the social media conversations of their wealthier peers — pointing to deeper forms of digital inequity.

Borehole seismometers will monitor faint tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault — part of UC Berkeley’s TremorScope project to determine the link between tremors and earthquakes.

Novel retinitis pigmentosa therapy has been created by stem cell researchers.

President Napolitano's transfer initiative seeks to enhance UC's partnership with the California Community College system.

Efforts to predict the emergence and spread of sudden oak death, an infectious disease that kills oaks and other trees, have gotten a big boost from the work of grassroots volunteers.

Biology and math join forces to force superbugs to evolve backward, allowing existing drugs to regain their effectiveness.