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

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 ...

Ricky Satomi did not set out to work in the wild forests of the Western Sierra. He grew up outside of Los Angeles in what was once citrus country, and after arriving at UC Berkeley, he settled on ...

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 ...

For decades, California had a golden glow in the public imagination: sun-lit surf, redwoods, Hollywood, the Golden Gate Bridge. Today, however, the state is often associated with shock-and-awe housing ...

When UC Berkeley postdoctoral researchers Maya Zomer and Lucia Layritz first drove through burned portions of Mojave National Preserve in Southern California, the sight stunned them. “It looks like a ...

Most of us have used the sniff test to decide whether a slightly expired bottle of milk or a week-old box of takeout is still good to eat. But while the human nose can be quite astute, it doesn’t ...

UC Berkeley researchers have found fossil evidence that animals from different latitudes of North America and South America mixed long before the Panamanian land bridge permanently linked the two ...

A California timber mill will be the first in the country to manufacture this eco-friendly, engineered wood product.

When people think of ancient civilizations that paved the path toward modernity, the Greeks and Romans are often top of mind. But before Rome dominated the Mediterranean, another culture laid the ...

In a decision announced today (March 26), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (USPTO and PTAB, respectively) reaffirmed its original decision that the Broad Institute, ...

After 17 lengthy recording sessions and more than a decade of review and revision, Davis and the Oral History Center at ...