Several groups around the world are reporting evidence that the cosmos is filled with a background of gravitational waves that is slowly stretching and compressing spacetime | Continue reading
Salamanders living in the crowns of redwoods are able to glide and maneuver in freefall, suggesting adaptation to living at heights | Continue reading
When Fox News viewers watch CNN for a month, their opinions shift in subtle but intriguing ways — until they return to Fox. | Continue reading
A new material created by University of California, Berkeley, researchers could reduce the energy required to control advanced silicon transistors | Continue reading
A decision issued Thursday, Feb. 10, by the California Court of Appeal, requires UC Berkeley to adhere to a lower court order requiring the university to freeze student enrollment at 42,347, the s… | Continue reading
‘Our brain is like a time machine. It keeps sending us back in time,’ new vision study shows | Continue reading
Young brains can adapt to overcome socioeconomic challenges and excel academically | Continue reading
The Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public will equip the next generation of scientists with the tools to tackle the ethical and societal implications of their research while inventing in… | Continue reading
Some of the viruses that invaded the mammalian genome long ago have been repurposed for key roles in development, new research shows | Continue reading
Researchers funded by the federal BRAIN Initiative have mapped all the cell types — more than a hundred — in the motor cortex of the brain | Continue reading
Half a century of allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin has recreated a lost forest ecosystem that is far more resilient to the impacts of drought, wildfire and cli… | Continue reading
Berkeley-based project could support action worldwide on climate, health and poverty | Continue reading
Tackling income inequality could boost low-income children’s vocabulary, study suggests | Continue reading
The telecommunications industry insists cellphone technology is safe. But the director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Family and Community Health is determined to prove it wrong. | Continue reading
The gifts will support construction of the Gateway, the future home of Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and the creation of two new faculty positions | Continue reading
Forest fragmentation, agricultural expansion and concentrated livestock production in China and Southeast Asia are bringing humans into closer contact with bats known to carry zoonotic diseases | Continue reading
Nonfungible tokens are all the rage, and now UC Berkeley is minting its own to raise money for research and education | Continue reading
Ting Xu’s lab has embedded polymer-eating enzymes in plastic to allow programmed degradation after the plastic’s useful life is over | Continue reading
At a time when nativism is on the rise, study reveals the universality of human emotional expression. | Continue reading
The low-cost diagnostic tool can provide accurate results in under 30 minutes and is simple enough to be made available at point-of-care settings or even in the home | Continue reading
Two fossils representing a group of extinct birds called pelagornithids are from the largest individuals ever found, with wingspans exceeding 20 feet | Continue reading
Brain scans reveal that reactive vocabulary drives neural polarization | Continue reading
Transistors based on carbon rather than silicon could potentially boost computers’ speed and cut their power consumption more than a thousandfold — think of a mobile phone that holds its charge for… | Continue reading
Research will use ancient compounds to explore the unplumbed depths of the mind | Continue reading
Don’t despair. Deep, restorative sleep may defend against virulent dementia | Continue reading
Gender gap leaves women experiencing adverse drug reactions nearly twice as often as men | Continue reading
Prioritizing diversity in admissions has yielded “an amazing, academically talented and diverse class” | Continue reading
Children who receive a few extra years of deworming treatment eventually have better jobs, higher incomes, says study led by Berkeley economist Edward Miguel. | Continue reading
Funded by NSF, the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Present and Future Quantum Computing will focus on how best to use evolving quantum computers and training a quantum-smart workforce | Continue reading
Study shows that visual precision varies from one person to the next | Continue reading
Primates’ neural computations shed new light on the evolution of language | Continue reading
New study suggests that plasma exchange could be the key to unlocking the body’s regenerative capacities | Continue reading
“I don’t think any human endeavor has ever saved so many lives in such a short period of time,” author says | Continue reading
Scientists tie disrupted slumber to deadly plaque buildup known as atherosclerosis | Continue reading
Public health warrior with a sense of purpose and humor wins the 2020 University Medal. | Continue reading
Coronavirus stay-out-home measures push intimate relationships to their limits. | Continue reading
Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocks for fuels and drugs on other planets | Continue reading
Why do we choose to believe some things and not others? | Continue reading
The roundworm C. elegans is helping scientists understand how the brain controls aging, including age-related muscle atrophy | Continue reading
The immune systems of some bats are so fierce that they drive viruses to a virulence that proves deadly when they cross over into humans | Continue reading
The last two years have seen a big jump in women and underrepresented minority students majoring in computer science | Continue reading
Leaky filtration system in brain contributes to cognitive dysfunction in aging as well as disease | Continue reading
A sleepless night can trigger up to a 30% rise in emotional stress levels, new study shows | Continue reading
Despite nationalist messaging, Muslim children found to feel no less Indian because of their faith | Continue reading
Deep-learning algorithms rival radiologists in ability to identify bleeding on CT scans | Continue reading
New center will draw on multidisciplinary research at both premier institutions. | Continue reading
A detailed look at the structure of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) proteins bound to human proteins shows how early humans escaped infection while other primates did not | Continue reading
Brain scientists open yet another door to our inner thoughts and narratives | Continue reading