As the world turned the chapter on a new decade, a terrifying virus emerged. Here's what happened next.

Would you let an economist set you up on a date?

Economics is often associated with the idea of money. But the field extends beyond what can be (or should be) monetized.

In the 1960s, researchers David Gale and Lloyd Shapley embarked upon research to take up an unlikely subject: matchmaking.

Funded in part by the Office of Naval Research, they were interested in the math behind pairing people up with partners who returned their affections.

Suppose you had a group of men and a group of women

Forget the image of the startup as something hatched in a garage, spun from little more than inspiration and pizza.

In California, a growing number of startups are emerging from UC labs and research institutes — young enterprises that are changing the game in fields from health care to agriculture.

Increasingly, graduate students are the brains behind these businesses.

Every two weeks, on average, a startup forms based on a UC graduate student invention. These startups currently support 3,500

A looming beer shortage, the gender paradox and a surprising link between consumer products and air pollution were among the UC research findings that got the world talking in 2018.

Those studies were among the most shared, discussed and tweeted in popular and online media around the globe, according to the Altmetric Top 100, an annual ranking that assesses the dissemination of scientific and scholarly research through both peer-reviewed papers and scholarly research, as well as news articles,

When it comes to economic growth and educational excellence, California has a secret weapon: its 56,000 University of California graduate students.

They are the workhorses behind UC’s prowess in education and research — helping teach undergraduates, conducting original research and making discoveries that result in a new startup every two weeks.

The whole state would benefit, in fact, if Sacramento lawmakers helped UC expand its graduate student enrollment, university officials say.

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As a kid growing up near downtown Los Angeles, Michael Nayak would look up though a haze of smog and city lights, and imagine a crowded universe of stars beyond.

“Every time you thought you could see a star, it would turn out to be a plane approaching LAX,” he joked.

Today, as a UC Santa Cruz grad student and active duty captain in the U.S. Air Force, Nayak is still pondering the unseen reaches of space. Only now he uses light waves and math to study the dynamics of a star system far beyond th

Anyone who has experienced Los Angeles gridlock likely can attest that traffic may cause one's blood pressure to rise. But UC Irvine researchers have found that, beyond the aggravation caused by fellow drivers, traffic-related air pollution presents serious heart health risks — not just for rush hour commuters, but for those who live and work nearby.

Research by UC Irvine joint M.D./Ph.D. student Sharine Wittkopp contributes to evidence that the increased air pollution generated by vehicle cong