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The robot Vestri
Researchers have developed a robotic learning technology that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered before.
Neha Zahid, left, at a dental health intervention in Nepal.
Neha Zahid came to Puranchaur and Hansapur in the winter of 2016 with Karen Sokal-Gutierrez in collaboration with a local Nepali non-profit organization, Jevaia Oral Health Care, to teach proper nutrition and oral hygiene.
Eric Munsing, Sören Künzel, Jake Soloff and Allen Tang
A team of four graduate students with serious data science and analysis skills won the $100,000 top prize in an international data science competition staged by the hedge fund Citadel.
A building in Mexico City
While the United States takes baby steps toward a public West Coast earthquake early warning system, Mexico City has had such a system since the late 1980s.
Bitcoin
The Blockchain Lab received the campus’s first ever donation in Bitcoin, worth more than $50,000.
James Webb Space Telescope

Two UC Berkeley astronomers are eagerly awaiting the spring 2019 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, havi

AAAS Fellows
Six scientists are among the 396 newest fellows elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for “advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”
Mouse immune system protein and invading bacterium
Never-before-seen images of mouse immune system proteins and bacterial bits reveal an inspection strategy that identifies pathogens.
Liang Wu and Aaron Meisner
Two postdoctoral fellows, physicists Aaron Meisner and Liang Wu, were recognized in the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 In Science list.
Maps from the Urban Displacement Project
Expanded, refined and updated maps revealing the latest state of gentrification and displacement in communities stretching across Northern California are being released by the Urban Displacement Project.
Dan Hammer
Doctoral candidate Dan Hammer has been awarded the first-ever Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award for his work to make satellite imagery more accessible and understandable for journalists who are reporting on the environment. 
Research measuring the impacts of numerous progressive California policies enacted over the last six years finds no negative effects on employment and economic growth.
California scrub jay nestlings
A new study suggests that many of the state’s birds are adapting to rising temperatures by breeding earlier than they did a century ago.
Adult loa loa worm
A smartphone-based microscope technology has been used to help treat river blindness, a debilitating disease caused by parasitic worms.
Dan Kammen sitting in front of a chalk board
Dan Kammen’s experience in the developing world makes it clear that energy solutions, like politics, must be local.