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Electric cars won’t fix sitting: The health costs of designing cities around cars

Walkability pioneer, UC San Diego urban planning professor Lawrence Frank revisits two decades of evidence linking car ...
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A new way to diagnose deadly lung infections and save lives

Researchers at UC San Francisco have devised a method to identify pneumonia — using both genetic information and AI — that ...
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Fathers’ microplastic exposure tied to their children’s metabolic problems

While MPs have already been detected in human reproductive systems, the study, published in the Journal of the Endocrine ...
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Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...
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On first anniversary of L.A. wildfires, health effects linger, but progress continues

UCLA Health experts say long-term threats to lung health, mental well-being and overall community wellness remain, long after ...
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Trinidad Quiroz signs professional contract with Necaxa Femenil

UC Merced women’s soccer star Trinidad Quiroz is the first Bobcat to sign a contract with the highest level of women’s football in Mexico.
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This dashboard displays three administrations of UCGSES survey data from 2021, 2023, and 2025, comparing responses to survey items across years. Results can be filtered to show specific results by ...
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California Community College new enrollments at UC

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 295,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.0 million ...
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Three fixes for AI's bias problem

A few years ago, UC Berkeley public health scholar Ziad Obermeyer found that an algorithm that affected health care for millions of patients routinely gave wealthier, white patients better access to ...
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Young voters have growing power, but broken politics leave them ‘fatalistic,’ studies find

Young voters from the millennial generation and Gen Z are emerging as the demographic center of power in American politics, but new studies by UC Berkeley researchers find they are fatalistic about ...
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How three UC campuses are phasing out fossil fuels

The plume of steam from UC Berkeley's natural gas-fired power plant is a familiar sight on the skyline of San Francisco's East Bay. But the facility's days are numbered: The campus is on track to ...
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UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, sharing it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, ...