The state’s aggressive emissions policies have reduced exposure to PM2.5 air pollution by 65% since 2000, but low-income communities of color still breathe the dirtiest air.
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After the mass death and destruction of World War I, Italy and Germany turned from democracy to dictatorships. UC Berkeley scholars see troubling parallels in contemporary American democracy.
UC Berkeley's Division of Social Sciences has announced an endowed program and chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies to usher in a new era of research and scholarship in this critical field of study.
The center will advance large-scale nature conservation and restoration through community-engaged research, training, outreach, and policy.
UC Berkeley study finds rapid increase over last 12,000 years in genes for enzymes that digest starch.
"Venture capital is clearly paying attention to Berkeley-generated companies," Chancellor Rich Lyons said. "And we're just getting started."
UC Berkeley landscape architect Walter Hood explain how he tells community stories through his designs.
The catalytic process, discovered by researchers at UC Berkeley, efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing a circular economy for plastics one step closer to reality.
Since its launch in 2020, the Liquid Sunlight Alliance has enabled progress in artificial photosynthesis – including advances in device performance, materials durability, and computational modeling.
UC Berkeley postdoc makes the case for Neurospora-laced oat pulp and cheesy moldy bread.
A new Berkeley Psychology research study suggests that worrying too much about happiness can actually make you feel less happy and even more depressed.
In Berkeley Talks episode 207, bestselling author and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Michael Pollan discusses how he chooses his subjects, why he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and the role of storytelling in shifting our perspective.
Uses include surgical superglue that could be game-changer for fetal surgeries
Sunaura Taylor' new book Disabled Ecologies, document how residents organized one of the earliest and most successful environmental justice movements in the country.
Colonies of these choanoflagellates — members of a group considered to be the closest living relatives of all animals — have their own unique microbiomes.
Device expands ways to manipulate low-dimensional quantum materials