Early on Thursday, Dec. 25, severe winds gusting up to 114 miles per hour tore loose half of the shutter on the 140-year old ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers show how vessel-tracking data mirrored tuna roaming beyond their typical territory due to unusually ...

New report examines how insurance policies covering urban forests could be structured and whether it’s feasible ...

From amazing research discoveries to high-impact new education and fundraising initiatives, UC Santa Cruz created significant ...

Modern biology textbooks assert that only bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that is usable for life. Plants that fix nitrogen, such as legumes, do so by ...

A model of the a-Heal wearable device. As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A wearable device called “a-Heal,” ...

UC Santa Cruz scientists, along with a consortium of researchers, have released a draft of the first human pangenome—a new, usable reference for genomics that combines the genetic information of 47 ...

First author Kiyomi Kaneshiro in the Strome lab at UC Santa Cruz. Without altering the genetic code in the DNA, epigenetic modifications can change how genes are expressed, affecting an organism’s ...

Professor Anne Kapuscinski (center) with (from left to right) Student Research Assistants Madison Medina and Macy Van Vlielt, Project Manager Stavros Boutris, and Pie Ranch Agriculture and ...

A new paper summarizing decades of research demonstrates how social media has supported an explosion of diversity in gender and sexuality in America during the 21st Century, and also how these ...