For decades, California had a golden glow in the public imagination: sun-lit surf, redwoods, Hollywood, the Golden Gate Bridge. Today, however, the state is often associated with shock-and-awe housing ...

“You always think about stress as a really bad thing, but it’s not,” said Daniela Kaufer, associate professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. “Some amounts of stress ...

Using mice as a model, UC Berkeley researchers demonstrate for the first time that viral proteins can directly activate the ...

When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the two winners of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the UC Berkeley economics community celebrated ...

Professor Ken Goldberg has long had doubts about how quickly robot capabilities could advance. But new AI models are leading ...

In an early sequence of Robert Reich’s new film, “The Work in Progress,” two young men sit beneath an arching canopy, surrounded by wintry Iowa fields. We know almost nothing about them: One is a ...

The year was 1950, and the great powers of the Cold War era had begun a conflict on the Korean Peninsula that would claim as many as 5 million lives and create millions more refugees. In the U.S.

In a decision announced today (March 26), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (USPTO and PTAB, respectively) reaffirmed its original decision that the Broad Institute, ...

A UC Berkeley analysis of 20th-century immigrant names found that about one in 20 people tried to disguise their foreign ...

The following message was sent to all UC Berkeley students, staff, faculty and academics on Friday, Nov. 6. Dear Berkeley ...

Abigail De Kosnik’s UC Berkeley research lab evaluates representation in movies and TV, helping audiences recognize bias — ...

Dear campus community, We’re relieved and overjoyed to share that, this morning, a federal judge ordered the release of our ...