The explosion of a massive star locked in a deadly orbit with a black hole has been discovered with the help of artificial ...

New book offers a model for tackling climate change while supporting workers and communities in the transition to renewable ...

Professors Roxanne Beltran and Dan Costa named to committees focused on activities on the West Coast and in Antarctica ...

Physicists from around the world will converge on campus to offer possible answers to some of the biggest and most vexing ...

For as long as she can remember, Assistant Professor of Languages and Applied Linguistics Ariel Chan has lived her life in ...

Shloka uses Hindu deities, rituals, and narratives to connect climate change issues with players’ religious and cultural values. Weaving climate lessons into familiar religious stories and practices ...

Earth & Space Global physics conference comes to UC Santa Cruz for first time—and why it matters Physicists from around the world will converge on campus to offer possible answers to some of the ...

Cedar Tree Foundation will fund a conservation-leadership academy to continue the work of the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars program at UC Santa Cruz ...

More than a quarter century since the first patents were filed, the UCSC researchers who pioneered nanopore sequencing reflect on the impact of their invention ...

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a powerful new computer program called Morpheus that can analyze astronomical image data pixel by pixel to identify and classify all of the galaxies and ...

High-tech collars enabled scientists to track mountain lions in the wild and determine how much energy the big cats use to hunt their prey.