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 ...

As often happens in science, the discovery of VIPR started with an observation that didn’t make sense.

Charred papyrus scrolls from a library inundated by volcanic ash in 79 C.E. are largely unreadable. UC Berkeley scientists ...

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 ...

In healthy older study participants, PET scans revealed the protein tau building up over time in their frontal cortices. This buildup correlates with shortened, isolated slow brain waves during sleep ...

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law has released a novel human rights assessment of the use of large language models (LLMs) in the fields of law, journalism, and education.

UC Berkeley researchers have created a new genomic language model, called GPN-Star, that excels at spotting genetic variants that impact human health. More than two decades after scientists first ...