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Man laying in a bed, doctor is using a stethoscope on him
Almost one in five older patients with a chronic disease reported experiencing health care discrimination, according the results of a large national survey analyzed by the school of Public Health. 
Baby hand holding a full hand
Can art penetrate the walls that divide us, and make us kinder? A Minneapolis museum, inspired by psychology research, plans to find out.
Karen Taylor
A $2.2 million state grant has helped UC Berkeley, already a global hub for innovation, to expand its entrepreneurship activities with new facilities, courses and programs, according to an early look at results.
Brain rhythms graphic
Like swinging a tennis racket during a ball toss to serve an ace, slow and speedy brainwaves during deep sleep must sync up at exactly the right moment to hit the save button on new memories, according to new research.
The National Endowment for the Humanities today announced $12.8 million in financial support for humanities research across the country.
California Boosting Wages and Retirement Security InfoGraphic: $15 Minimum Wage by 2023 and CA secure choice retirement savings program leads to 50% more retirement income for young low-wage workers
Two California laws will significantly boost retirement income security for low-income workers and may help them avoid poverty in retirement.
Charles Marshall sitting among dinosaur skulls
The planet is experiencing an unparalleled increase in greenhouse gas emissions accompanied by soaring population growth and resource extraction – almost all of it occurring within a single lifetime.
Birth Control Pills
A new law took effect in California last year allowing pharmacists to prescribe birth control. But few of the state’s pharmacies are actually offering this service, according to new UC Berkeley research.
Tsu-Jae King Liu, Daniel Portnoy and Eli Yablonovitch
Three faculty members – Tsu-Jae King Liu and Eli Yablonovitch of electrical engineering and computer sciences and Daniel Portnoy of molecular and cell biology and public health – have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
The blackbody attraction between a hot tungsten cylinder and a cesium atom
Our physical attraction to hot bodies is real, according to UC Berkeley physicists.
Randy Howard Katz
Wireless pioneer to take the reins at a challenging time for research universities
Jennifer Sowerwine
The Berkeley Food Institute and a scientist in the College of Chemistry have received grants from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.
Tiger
A research expedition tracked endangered tigers through the Sumatran jungles for a year and found tigers are clinging to survival in low density populations.
Rosemary Gillespie
No place on the planet is truly isolated anymore, which means invasive species travel as easy as humans, hitchhiking on boats and planes with potentially devastating effects on the ecosystems they land in.
Fundamental structures of a pion (left) and a proposed SIMP (strongly interacting massive particle)
The intensive, worldwide search for dark matter has so far failed to find an abundance of dark, massive stars or scads of strange new weakly interacting particles, but a new candidate is slowly gaining followers and observational support.
Death Valley
The first “big data” analysis of California’s native plants, using digitized information from more than 22 herbaria and botanical gardens around the state, provides some surprises about one of the most thoroughly studied and unique areas in the country.