When Pliny the Younger recorded his first-hand experience of the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago — a cataclysm that ...

“Berkeley Law Voices Carry,” hosted by Gwyneth Shaw, is a podcast about how the school’s faculty, students, and staff are ...

By mutating genes in these so-called organoids, Bateup and her Berkeley team have now discovered a source of seizures in children with one of the most common forms of early-onset epilepsy — and have ...

On the surface, the arid expanses of the Mojave Desert may seem inhospitable and largely removed from the global carbon cycle. But beneath the surface, its mineral-rich soils are running a carbon ...

The historian discusses how New World exploration led to a “Price Revolution” and the global use of silver currency and concludes his narrative in 1933, when capitalism prevailed in spite of the ...

Rather than trying to halt technological progress altogether, Bell urged people to maintain and invest in forms of connection and creativity that resist automation’s pull. After all, the value of art ...

Research team uses innovative new methodology to see and explain how electrons change from a solid to liquid state in the presence of defects. The experimental image on the left is a scanning ...

UC Berkeley study finds the city of Richmond’s gun violence program led to three times the national decline in violence James Houston, left, speaks to residents in Richmond, California. (Courtesy of ...

UC Berkeley will offer a Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – a new graduate professional degree program for STEM graduates – starting in fall 2027, with applications opening Sept.

New UC Berkeley Haas research published in the American Economic Review finds doctors outperform nurse practitioners on average—but performance varies more within the professions than between them. In ...

For years, social media companies have faced pressure from users and government watchdogs to stop misinformation from distorting elections, deepening political divisions and undermining Americans’ ...

Open-source investigation documents 412 incidents of misuse and 203 injuries across 16 U.S. cities from June 2025 through May 2026, with sharp increases in the cities where Border Patrol Commander ...