Watching the fog slip away is like opening a package at Christmas time, except what is being revealed is nature in all its ...

Synapse was pleased to welcome Dr. Jennifer Frazier as our guest for the 7th annual Synapse Science Speaker series on... “The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers ...

Curandera tradicional Maria Ruiz Mendoza braids her hair every morning to honor the ancestral healing practices of her Zapotec Indigenous ancestors. Through braiding, she embodies intergenerational ...

Frazier, a science communicator, UCSF alumna and adjunct professor, discussed the importance of engaging the public with ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981. Last Saturday, International Committee Against Racism (InCAR) and Progressive Labor Party took a leading role in forcibly preventing a Ku Klux Klan ...

“The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers from all over the Bay, equipped with their own stethoscopes, leaned in, listening to the beats and murmurs of a manikin’s ...

Ziqian Feng is a Graduate Student in the Health Data Science program. She loves to explore the big questions in life and wishes to use her poetry as a channel for opening and community. Synapse is the ...

And it became clear that I wanted to live the rest of my life with you, I had to think about what marriage means to me.

I was at the grocery store to get cake ingredients, and I saw that the egg aisle was near overflowing with cartons. The eggs were $10 a dozen, and it would seem that shoppers did not feel a particular ...

What comes to mind when thinking about the word ‘hunger’? Maybe you pictured an empty fridge, a malnourished child, or simply a grumbling stomach? But did you imagine panic attacks, sleepless nights, ...