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Climate change poses a particular risk to the giant kelp forests off our Pacific coast. A team of researchers at UVA and UC Santa Barbara are working to understand just how important the “sequoias of the sea” are to the future of a fragile environment.

As the world awaits the findings of a task force charged with analyzing UFO sightings, due this month, Johnson explains why investigating reports of alien spacecraft isn’t a bad idea.

Thanks to a collaboration by neuroscientists and biologists at UVA, genomics research has taken an important step forward.

For Anna Nguyen, a knack for caring, a love of statistics and an interest in making a difference opened doors at one of the best dental schools in the country.

UVA physicist Dinko Počanić is playing a part in making a discovery that could change our understanding of how the universe works.

As the U.S. renews its commitment to the Paris Agreement, UVA’s Environmental Resilience Institute is stepping up to play a leading role in addressing a crisis of global proportions.

Conventional painkillers only mask symptoms caused by inflammation. Tim Ware’s research targets inflammation’s source, and has won him one of the NIH’s top honors for graduate researchers.

With the help of volunteers, environmental scientists at UVA are gearing up for a large-scale study of the impacts of clean air legislation and climate change on the commonwealth’s mountain streams.

Using tools that offer them an unprecedented view of our galaxy’s stars, UVA astronomers say a phenomenon warping the edges of the Milky Way is the result of an intergalactic event that happened 3 billion years ago.

An environmental scientist at UVA is looking for geological clues from the distant past to better understand how quickly arctic ice is melting and what that could mean for the future of our coastal communities.