The NSF CAREER Award-funded research will focus on addiction-recovery and teenage mental health scenarios, but can be applied to any chatbot use.

A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved.

Ashesh Chattopadhyay and Fujitsu Research are developing actionable AI-based climate models that reduce resource-guzzling computation time from months to minutes

America’s infrastructure was already hackable. Then came AI.

Central Coast officials are preparing for a potentially wet winter as a strong El Niño is expected to bring heavy rain, flooding, and other impacts to the region.

A $2.9 million R01 research award from the National Institutes of Health will support the efforts of engineers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute to further develop and drive down the cost of com...

At the University of California, Santa Cruz, ShapesXR supports Creative Design in Virtual Reality, an undergraduate course open to multidisciplinary students. By enabling VR-native prototyping without...

Researchers used T2T reference assembly approaches to put together a diploid human genome, along with genome assemblies for several other vertebrate animals and plant species.

This summer, 45 middle school students from across Santa Cruz and Monterey counties participated in the five-day camp, taking part in hands-on projects, lab tours, and a field trip to Google.

Advances in genome assembly methods helped researchers complete reference genomes for humans, marmosets, songbirds, and more, accelerating genomic research.

Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?

UC Presidential Chair Magy Seif El-Nasr shares insights on how AI has shaped academic publishing, and her observations on an emerging "AI divide."

The technology screens for cancer, and even abnormal “precancerous” cells, using a simple blood draw.

AI could make bioweapons easier to build. A rare coalition wants to stop that now.

The scientists hypothesize that an entire landscape might be implicated in life's beginning

A UCSC professor and Watsonville native is looking to provide up-to-date information on air quality for Pajaro Valley residents.

While the world focuses on the power consumption of massive AI data centers, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are looking at a more efficient alternative: the human brain.

Sure, playing video game is fun. But the ability of tiny brain organoids to pick up a skill could provide insight into how healthy brains work.

The fellowship program is one of the nation's most prestigious of its kind. Awardees at or from UC Santa Cruz represent fields ranging from engineering to the physical, biological, or social sciences.

A new ranking demonstrates Banana Slugs’ software engineering career readiness

Preet Karia built an AI-powered tool to turn physics notes into 3D visualizations.

The program provides funds to support the career trajectories of early- to mid-career faculty and their graduate students.

In a step toward biological computing, brain organoids rewired their networks as they learned to balance a digital pole on a cart.

A team of UC Santa Cruz students and an alumnus earned third place at the 2026 Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon in San Francisco for developing an artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity solution ...

‘Both of us have recently moved from denial to contemplation that AI will soon be in a position to replace us.’

Scientists trained a brain organoid to solve a well-known engineering task, and its success demonstrates the increasing complexity of lab-grown brains.

Wonderfil has partnered with UC Santa Cruz, Whole Foods and others to allow customers to refill bottles of soap, detergent and shampoo in their containers of choice in a fully automated process.

Learn more about the advances in brain organoids and what this science could mean for the future.

The awards recognize exceptional graduate student researchers who are advancing the future of semiconductor devices, technology, design and manufacturing.

Scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz have just taken a huge step in the long history of lab-cultured brains.

A pangenome can reveal the spectrum of genome variation within a species. The toolbox for working with pangenomes is filling up.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have trained brain organoids, tiny pieces of brain tissue grown in the lab, to solve the "inverted pendulum" or "cart-pole" problem, a fundamen...

Milano Cortina​ has cutting‑edge replays, chase‑cam drones and exuberant commentary ​bringing a wave of unexpected nostalgia for anyone who grew up on 90s extreme‑sports games

In one test, a simulated self-driving car disregarded an active crosswalk because of a sign labeled "Proceed."

Scientists are growing brain tissue to learn more about the organ. What will the public make of the work?

Lab-grown mini-brains learned to play video games using electrical signals, improving from 4.5% to 46% success in AI balance tests.