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 ...

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 ...

UC Berkeley faculty and key benefactors will gather for a ribbon-cutting ceremony today (May 13) to celebrate nearing completion on the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway building, the new home of the ...

UC Berkeley is joining forces with Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch a new, nonpartisan institute dedicated to strengthening American democracy and ...

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 ...

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

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

John Clarke, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum tunneling, one of many strange aspects of ...

Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow or even reverse the cognitive decline that comes with age. In a publication appearing today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to a rapidly warming ...

In 1821, two free Black men from the West Indies — playwright William Alexander Brown and actor James Hewlett — opened what’s considered the United States’ first Black theater in New York City. When ...

The underlying principle is the writ of habeas corpus, a dusty Latin term not widely understood, even by some top government officials. But in the view of Amanda Tyler, a UC Berkeley law professor, ...