Chatbots and large language models can execute a seemingly countless number of tasks, from writing emails and reports to generating code and analyzing data. However, they still primarily act only in ...

The semester was over and the morning was still, but high above the UC Berkeley campus, the prestigious University Club was buzzing with energy. Top state policymakers and community leaders, along ...

Like many students still in their teens, Isshin Shiraishi arrived at UC Berkeley in 2023 with no clear plan for his education or life after graduation. Certainly, though, he had no intention to choose ...

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 ...

The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large ...

Micah Parzen, a longtime museum leader who oversaw the multiyear transformation of one of the country’s most visited anthropology museums, has been named the next executive director of the Phoebe A.

Can psychedelics help our minds and brains stay healthy as we grow older? That’s the question posed by a new first-of-its-kind study launched earlier this year at the UC Berkeley Center for the ...

Hollywood created the myth of spear-throwing mammoth hunters. A UC Berkeley archaeologist explains why ancestral survival ...

In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley campus, two bespoke microscopes — each a Swiss Army knife for high-resolution imaging — operate around the clock gathering data ...

An artistic reconstruction of the understory of a late Cretaceous forest based on 75-million-year-old fossils from an inland environment that is now part of New Mexico. The scene depicts two ...

At 3 months old, Victoria Gray wouldn’t stop crying. Blood tests brought devastating news: she had sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder that blocks blood flow and oxygen delivery to the body.

A new UC Berkeley study finds that while female human characters have made gains, nonhuman creatures have yet to catch up.