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Two researchers in lab coats and goggles work with outdoor scientific equipment near a modern building.
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.
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UC Berkeley postdoc makes the case for Neurospora-laced oat pulp and cheesy moldy bread.
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A new Berkeley Psychology research study suggests that worrying too much about happiness can actually make you feel less happy and even more depressed.
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An interview with a professor researching African and Black diasporic literature and gender and sexuality.
Michael Pollan joined KQED’s Mina Kim to discuss how he picks his work
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.
Illustration of alpha-lipoic acid molecular structure. (Image by SergeiShimanovich/Shutterstock.com)
Uses include surgical superglue that could be game-changer for fetal surgeries
A black and white illustration depicts an artist’s imagining of an aquifer, showing a large underground mass sprouting a collection of small arms that reach for the roots of plants growing above.
Sunaura Taylor' new book Disabled Ecologies, document how residents organized one of the earliest and most successful environmental justice movements in the country.
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Colonies of these choanoflagellates — members of a group considered to be the closest living relatives of all animals — have their own unique microbiomes.
Twisting light with a micromachine.
Device expands ways to manipulate low-dimensional quantum materials
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UC Berkeley archeologists say the findings might help resolve the debate about Clovis points and reshape how we think about hunting some 13,000 years ago.
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UC Berkeley Economics and Public Policy Professor has been awarded the 2024 Daniel M. Holland Medal by the National Tax Association.
Vice President. Kamala Harris wears a serious expression as she stands before a pair of microphones
Women who rise through the ranks and succeed win our respect, but we also penalize them because we see them as less warm, less nurturing.
a small white and black tube sits on pebbly red ground in the shade of the Insight lander on Mars
The Perseverance rover gathered sediments that can only be analyzed on Earth to retrieve more detailed information on Mars' water history.
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Explore Berkeley French professor's Guggenheim Year and her recent academic endeavors.
UC Berkeley psychology professor Alison Gopnik looks into the camera, next to a still picture of a robot hand reaching out towards a baby's hand.
Watch UC Berkeley professor Alison Gopnik explain the surprising overlap in just 101 seconds.
A white squirrel with red eyes faces the camera with a nut in it’s paws.
From albino squirrels to black coyotes, urban wildlife with unique color variations reveal the role of human bias in wildlife conservation.