Berkeley’s newest space telescope, COSI, is one of many instruments built at the Space Sciences Laboratory. By Charlotte ...

The academic year 2013-14 changed the direction of Wendy Ingram’s life. Over the course of a few months, four members of the UC Berkeley department in which she was a graduate student died by suicide: ...

U.S. News & World Report has ranked UC Berkeley No. 7 in its 2026 list of the best global universities, which assesses more than 2,250 research institutions worldwide. Berkeley also claimed the honor ...

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 ...

Water has always been one of California’s most contested resources. For more than a century, battles have raged over how much of the state’s water should be diverted to farmland, pumped into cities or ...

The year was 1950, and the great powers of the Cold War era had begun a conflict on the Korean Peninsula that would claim as many as 5 million lives and create millions more refugees. In the U.S.

Asked if his new book on the history of capitalism is hopeful, Trevor Jackson outright laughs. The UC Berkeley history professor has spent his career documenting the rise of the economic system that ...

The pandemic-era exodus of Californians to other states has eased, but the sometimes shocking cost of living continues to press thousands of residents to leave for less expensive locations, according ...

A core assumption in any democracy is that citizens with access to information will make reasoned decisions on political candidates and policy issues. But a new study by UC Berkeley social scientists ...

Douglas Seiler painstakingly sourced papyrus and reed pens from Egypt and traditional lampblack ink from Japan, then paid some high school students to inscribe the papyrus with lines from Star Wars ...

When UC Berkeley professor Oliver O’Reilly and his collaborators used a novel method to understand which motions are crucial ...

Gains by students who went through the state’s prekindergarten programs in the 2010s were still evident in third and fourth ...