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 ...

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

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

Alumnus Greg Olsen not only leads a successful medical practice, but also a booming commercial fishing business ...

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 ...

In two recent papers, an international team led by UC Santa Cruz scientists describe the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell. The organelle is the fourth example in history ...

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

This year marks the 25th anniversary of UC Santa Cruz's famous banana slug mascot, a once-subversive symbol on campus. This month, a former chancellor and various alumni looked back on the days when ...

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 ...