Kathleen Treseder thinks a lot about potential solutions for problems like erosion. She studies and teaches climate change at the University of California, Irvine. She says many of the expensive homes along Orange County’s coastline…

When most people think about saving the bees, its usually the honeybees. In reality, saving the honeybee population is just the beginning. There are thousands of other species of wild bees we should be thinking…

Three University of California, Irvine researchers will receive more than $8 million in climate action grants to support projects that will help advance progress toward California’s climate goals….

The Psychonomic Society will confer scientific awards each year upon young scientists who have made excellent scientific contributions to the field of cognitive psychology early in their careers….

Bees that build microbreweries, ride a miniature merry-go-round and possibly even wear diapers. In biologist Tobin Hammer’s UCI lab, all sorts of unusual projects unfold….

The University of California, Irvine has announced the establishment of the “Dr. Lionel and Fay Ng Dean’s Chair in Biological Sciences” in an exciting step towards advancing groundbreaking research in the life sciences and fostering…

In searching for the genetic mechanism behind this difference, the UCI biologists selected as their subject Heliconius charithonia, in which visual capacity is sexually dimorphic. When they finished assembling the first complete genome for this…

Associate Professor Katrine Whiteson and her research team, from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, have received a grant of $70,000 per year for two years from the Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute’s New Horizons…

When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study by University of California, Irvine neuroscientists reaped a 226% increase in…

UCI biologists Kim Green and Tom Lane have been awarded $250,000 from the Alzheimer’s Association to assess how COVID-19 affects the onset and severity of Alzheimer’s disease….