A new study by University of California (Santa Cruz) researchers indicates that a significant increase in the minimum wage for fast-food workers in California has resulted in "negative outcomes." Despite the law's aim to boost income, the study suggests unintended adverse effects.

A study by the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that California's $20 minimum wage hike for fast-food workers has resulted in job losses, increased prices, and reduced worker hours. Researchers indicate these are "negative outcomes" of the policy.

J. Michael Bishop, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered cancer-causing genes and served as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, has died at the age of 90.

Researchers from Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics and the University of California, Berkeley, have introduced a new framework called perceptive humanoid parkour (PHP) to enable humanoid robots to move and behave more like humans.

The US government has filed another lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), alleging it overlooked antisemitism during student protests against Israel, leading to criticism, lawsuits, and financial penalties.

Epstein Funded UCSD Study Of 'Telepathic Autistic Savant' Through Deepak Chopra Connection Jeffrey Epstein was connected with several notable scientists - funding leading research centers, including Harvard, where he donated $9 million, and MIT's Media Lab, which he gave at least $7.5 million (and funneled another $1.2 million to investments under the control of the lab's former director, Joi Ito). He was connected to Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky, Steven Pinker and a host of other names.  Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran and Jeffrey Epstein Now we learn that Epstein provided funding to a lab at UC San Diego after lifestyle guru Deepak Chopra introduced the financier to lab director Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran - a neuroscientist who was studying an "autistic savant who displays telepathy," according to the latest DOJ Epstein file dump.  Chopra, a former UCSD family medicine and public health clinical professor, said in late October that he was just helping Epstein with insomnia by teaching him to meditate. "At my suggestion, he also visited Dr. V.S. Ramachandran's lab at [the University of California San Diego] to learn about ongoing brain research," he told CBS News in December.  EFTA01013830.pdf Ramachandran was conducting a study on an "autistic savant who displays telepathy," according to UCSD's The Guardian, citing a Sept. 25, 2017 email with the subject "Cost to study the autistic savant who displays telepathy," in which he tells Chopra, "i don't have a problem with my lab being funded by epstein ... so long as theres no UC connection."  Ramanchandran further wrote that if Chopra’s “pal [Epstein] is serious about setting in motion a lab for the study of extraordinary brain potential … something like 500,000 to 3 million would get the administrators excited.” A subsequent email from Epstein to his accountant, Richard Kahn, instructed Kahn to send $25,000 from Epstein’s private foundation, Gratitude America Ltd., to the University of California Board of Regents to fund Ramachandran’s research on savant syndrome. He asked it to be mailed to former psychology department director and current chief administrative officer, Peter Hinkley.  Chopra later emailed Epstein on October 5, 2017 to provide an update on spending the day with Ramachandran to discuss the "pilot study of autistic savants." Ceepak Chopra The 2017 emails weren't the first Epstein-Ramachandran mention. On April 17, 2009, Epstein emailed someone whose name was redacted, replying to a list of "smart" and "out of the box" people to have over to his Florida home sometime in the future. Epstein included Ramachandran in this list, along with others who he described as "good friends of mine for years."  While there's nothing we could find on the telepathic kid (maybe they sensed danger), Ramachandran did write an article in December 2006 where he says telepathy is "legitimately ignored, except by crackpots" because it's difficult to replicate. He's also mentioned a few times in this piece on life after death, ESP, and other phenomenon. Tyler Durden Thu, 02/19/2026 - 11:05

Scientists at the University of California are developing a single blood test capable of detecting multiple cancers and other diseases, as well as various organ abnormalities, potentially revolutionizing medical diagnostics.

A comprehensive study, led by the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Cambridge, and the Mila AI Institute, indicates that psychedelic substances transform the organization of the brain, challenging previous notions of chaos or breakdown.

An expert on semiconductor packaging and memory chips has left the University of California, Irvine after more than two decades to join a leading conductive materials company in eastern China. Shi Guojun has taken on the role of chief strategic scientist and director of the Future Industry Research Institute at DK Electronic Materials, the company said in a statement posted online on March 6. According to DKEM, Shi will lead the company’s strategic planning and development in emerging...

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added the University of California, Berkeley, and the Russian-American Science Association to its register of 'undesirable organizations'.

The US government has filed another lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024

Waste Of The Day: The Story Of Robosquirrel Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Dr. Frankenstein was able to bring his monster back to life using just rusty tools and a cramped workshop. Researchers in California needed taxpayer funding from the National Science Foundation for their own reanimation experiment, with results that were not quite as impressive. In 2012, San Diego State University and the University of California, Davis used part of a ...

Researchers at the University of California have identified a protein, FTL1, that appears to be responsible for accelerating brain aging. A new study suggests that reducing this protein could reverse brain aging in mice.

A University of California study reveals that one in three Americans perceives the apocalypse as a personal threat, with these beliefs influencing their perspectives on global risks.

The Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley has published an expanded edition of the English translation of "Chingbirok," the 1604 chronicle of the Japanese…

The University of California has sold $2 billion in debt, a move made while the institution faces pressure from a Trump administration crackdown.

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the University of California, alleging that the campus fostered a hostile antisemitic environment for Jewish employees following nationwide protests.

The Trump administration accused the University of California, Los Angeles, of not doing enough to curb antisemitism.