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UC Science Today is produced by the University of California and covers the latest and greatest research throughout the system. From breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture and the environmen...
In 1989, UC Berkeley psychologist Robert Levenson began to study a group of people who had been married at least 15 years or 35 years, depen...
If you’ve been around awhile, chances are you’ve experienced foods that were once touted to be good for you, suddenly becoming the worst thi...
It's a workday, just after lunch. You have a deadline and there's plenty of time left in the day to get the task done. If only you could sto...
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, might be close to finding a drug that could cure glaucoma, which is the world’s secon...
How does one make a brain atlas? John Ngai, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley explains. “You can think of it as a t...
Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, affects over two million people worldwide. The neurodegenerative disease strikes when the immune system attacks m...
Believe it or not, neuroscience is still considered a relatively new field of medical research. That’s because there’s still a lot of the un...
Exposure to flame retardant chemicals or PBDEs during pregnancy can affect children’s neurodevelopment. Environmental health scientist Trace...
Glaucoma is the world’s second-leading cause of blindness, and it affects about 80 million people worldwide and has no cure. But vision scie...
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have started an ambitious project to build a brain atlas. According to neuroscientist...
Social connections are important and can make you happier, according to psychologist Iris Mauss of the University of California, Berkeley. B...
It seems there’s more to high-density lipoproteins, or HDLs, than we previously thought. Nutrition researcher Angela Zivkovic of the Univers...
Will software engineers ever be able to outsmart hackers and build an unbreakable wall of defense? Dawn Song, a computer scientist at the Un...
Medical students at the University of California, San Francisco, are learning about the human body in a new, experimental setting. Anatomy p...
When you accept your own negative emotions – you will likely have a more positive outlook on mood swings than people around you have. That’s...
Artificial Intelligence has been developing fast – and it’s making more and more decisions on humans’ behalf. From simple web searches to e-...
Sleep disorders during pregnancy can lead to a preterm birth. To improve sleeping patterns of mothers-to-be, Jennifer Felder, a clinical psy...
Virtual Reality becomes a reality in medical research. Derek Harmon, a professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco,...
Medical students at the University of California, San Francisco, are learning about human anatomy not only on cadavers, but also in virtual...
A couple of decades ago flame retardants – or PBDEs - were widely used in furniture because of the fire safety standards. But that policy ha...
How much stress can you take? Maybe you’re OK with a small bump in the road, like a parking ticket or a spat with your neighbor. But what ab...
What really makes you happy or sad? According to Psychologist Iris Mauss of the University of California, Berkeley it is not so much about w...
If your home has furniture that contains flame retardant materials, you may want to consider getting rid of it. A study by Tracey Woodruff,...
About a quarter of all the global climate change problems we’re seeing today can be attributed back to our food system and the dietary choic...
How do you handle stress? Psychologist Iris Mauss of the University of California, Berkeley wanted to learn how people deal with stressors,...
Exposure to flame retardant chemicals or PBDEs during pregnancy can affect children’s neurodevelopment. That’s according to Tracey Woodruff,...
Can pregnant women be cured of insomnia? Jennifer Felder, a clinical phycologist at the University of California, San Francisco, is testing...
Can parents protect their children from developing asthma and eczema? Michael Cabana, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Califor...
Do you feel bad when you’re moody, upset or depressed? Well, don’t be. Negative emotions are not so bad. So says Iris Mauss, a psychologist...
When we think about our food system, we need to factor in that about 33 percent of the land area is now used for animals for food. And accor...
Are yogurt, kefir and other probiotics really good for you? Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, believe the benefits...
Why do pregnant women tend to suffer from sleep disorders? Financial status of the future mothers could be one of the reasons leading to ins...
Environmental pollutants can damage our health, but how much do we know about their harmful effects? As part of a prenatal patients’ study,...
How technological advances are factored in climate change models by University of California
Private space tourism is no longer a faraway dream. In fact, Thomas Lang, an imaging scientist at the University of California, San Francisc...
How important is it for pregnant women to get enough sleep? Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have recently conduc...
Every year, more than 25 thousand pounds of chemicals are imported or manufactured in the United States, but scientists have very little dat...
Every year, almost 2 million Americans suffer from traumatic brain injury, which often lead to severe memory loss and learning disabilities....
Sometimes, breakthroughs in science really do come down to simple curiosity. That was definitely the case when a team of researchers at the...
This week on Science Today, we learned something that many of you probably already know – and that’s how curiosity is often the main ingredi...
Everything that humans are used to on Earth changes in space and that’s what astronauts should be prepared for during long space trips. “You...
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have discovered that a specific virus called cytomegalovirus, or CMV, could trig...
Virtual reality may help people with a visual condition called amblyopia, in which there is reduced vision in one eye. Neuroscientist Adrian...
Pregnant women exposed to social stress and environmental chemicals, have a higher risk of prenatal developmental problems and low-birth-wei...
Space missions are exciting, but they’re risky for astronauts’ health. The lack of gravity in space may seriously damage their musculoskelet...
Parents who used to smoke, but quit before conceiving, may still put their child’s heath at risk. Researchers of the University of Californi...
Hi there – I’m Larissa Branin, host of Science Today and it’s that time of the week again where we go over some of the stories covered this...
What’s the best way to treat people suffering from substance abuse? Jennifer Mitchell, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San...
Soda consumption in the United States fell to a 31-year low last year. This, according to the trade publication, Beverage-Digest. Instead, c...
By the end of the century, climate change will likely cause a decline of wheat and barley yields by 17 to 33 percent. Those were the finding...