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New research shows that AI systems can process signals in a way that is remarkably similar to how the brain interprets speech.

A Berkeley Labor enter study found that about half a million workers and their families would benefit financially from such a wage increase.

Two California water engineers are working with the Data Science Discovery program to develop a drinking water regulation chatbot.

New study found that partnering with local communities made each attempt significantly more successful.

Programs in areas including business, computer science, public affairs, engineering and chemistry were all labeled No. 1 in the nation, according to U.S. News.

A team of Berkeley Law students and faculty affiliated with the school’s International Human Rights Law Clinic have succeded in bringing the 2010 killing of Anastasio Rojas by U.S. Border Patrol agents in front of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

In a time of growing concern about divisive media and rising polarization, the new study found that one in five registered Republicans watches at least eight hours of right-wing Fox News per month. Some 15% of Democrats watch a similar amount of coverage on networks MSNBC and CNN.

The new UC Berkeley fellows are medical anthropologist Charles Briggs, philosopher John Campbell, neuroscientist Marla Feller, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, physicist Dung-Hai Lee and political scientist Amy Lerman.

Berkeley News spoke with Schulman about why he chose Berkeley for graduate school, the allure of towel-folding robots, and what he sees for the future of artificial general intelligence.

$70M funding will catalyze a bold new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield to apply precision genome editing to microbial communities.

Rates of school discipline fluctuate widely and predictably throughout a school year and increase significantly faster for Black students than for their white counterparts, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have found.

Californians have a vision for 2050 with broad agreement on ways to improve health care, education and government efficiency, according to an innovative new poll co-produced at UC Berkeley.

Seen from Earth, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is just a two-dimensional blob, though one that appears perfectly symmetrical and thus a favored target of amateur astronomers.

Researchers from the UC Berkeley have proposed a scalable solution that uses simple, inexpensive technologies to remove carbon from our atmosphere and safely store it for thousands of years.

UC Berkeley researchers used U.S. Department of Education data and a survey of Latinx studies programs across the country to analyze how much the universities had invested in those degree-granting programs.

The last “civilization-ending technology” – atomic energy – has been the subject of intense governance and extreme care on behalf of its engineers. Russell says that AI needs the same kind of attention.