Berkeley’s world-class economics department is celebrating the Nobels won today by two scholars: Robert E. Hall, a 1964 graduate and early-career faculty member, and Michael Woodford, a visiting ...

Break-bone fever. The nickname alone attests to the pain that dengue fever can cause. Though about half the people who get the virus are asymptomatic, for the rest, an infection can be excruciating, ...

The UK’s national academy of sciences, known as the Royal Society, today elected more than 90 new members from around the world, including three from UC Berkeley. “Their contributions reflect the ...

It was the morning after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and pianist Lara Downes was catching a flight from California to Kentucky, where she was set to perform later in the evening. “It was a ...

Over 50 years ago, students went on strike at UC Berkeley demanding formal research and teaching of Asian American, Black, Chicano and Native American experiences; they also called for more ...

In the sci-fi book and now movie Project Hail Mary, astronaut Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, encounters three different alien lifeforms in the vicinity of Earth. He joins forces with one of ...

Each year in the U.S., more than 300,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest, a condition where the heart’s electrical system malfunctions without warning. The medical emergency can kill both ...

This year, the University of California system is launching its first-ever Regents Innovation Awards, recognizing faculty and community partners across all ten UC campuses who turn research into ...

History textbooks often frame the founding of America as a series of battles and physical conquests. But early American colonialism wasn’t just built with brutal force — it was engineered in libraries ...

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

Scholars from top institutions, including UC Berkeley, have released a study that maps out — and confirms the viability of — ...

A novel study by UC Berkeley scholars finds that when Americans are presented with complex decisions on immigration, climate ...