Already passed in the budget bill last summer was an amendment requiring the Consumer Products Safety Commission to withhold ...

FMF is an autoinflammatory genetic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and serositis (inflammation of the ...

Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was ...

There is an important initiative on the November California ballot that would make sweeping changes to California’s renewable ...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was... [Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 23, 2008.] There is an ...

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, ...

This photo was taken on my digital camera at the UCLA botanical gardens near campus in Westwood. It’s a really great location to visit to destress and relax in nature. I love the idea that in the ...

In May I took an early summer vacation to central Japan with my partner for a very early graduation trip. We spent an entire day traveling through Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, with the weather ...

This photo was taken on my digital camera at the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles. During my undergraduate years, my friends and I would often visit the pier to play games at the arcade, swim, and ...

Synapse is the UCSF student newspaper. We seek to serve as a forum for the campus community. Articles and columns represent the views of the authors and not necessarily those of the Board of ...

This was my first time seeing a badger in the wild. I was on a cliff looking down on some sea lions and it walked out in front of me. The sea lions are on the rock far below. This may be the only ...

Our headlamps click on and light up dust particles floating through the cool air. Far above us, condors drift on updrafts in Pinnacles National Park. The caves are not long but steep and twisted, and ...