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a woman dozing off with a cup of coffee in front of a laptop
Scientists have discovered that you can wake up each morning without feeling sluggish by paying attention to three key factors: sleep, exercise and breakfast.
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UC Berkeley has invested in research around basic quantum science, building a strong foundation across campus.
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Female astronomers on average published about nine papers for every 10 published by men — a rate that has remained stagnant for decades.
Alexandre Bayen
An interdisciplinary team of industry and academic researchers led by Professor Alexandre Bayen has completed its most ambitious real-time traffic experiment to date
Dean Ann Harrison
A new book collects Harrison’s path-breaking work on globalization, trade, and foreign direct investment into a single volume. 
Dawn Song and David Wagner
Computer Science Profs. Dawn Song and David Wagner have won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Test-of-Time Award.
Four people standing with backs to viewers looking at sets of screen monitors of traffic.
In a massive traffic experiment scientists tested whether introducing just a few AI-equipped vehicles to the road can help ease “phantom” jams and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. The answer seems to be yes.
Prabal Dutta
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Prof. Prabal Dutta has won the 2022 ACM SenSys Test of Time Award.
Tina Trujillo, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, looks into the camera. She is sitting in front of a row of bicycles.
Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics will train people to safely guide patients' psychedelic experiences in therapeutic and research settings.
red and blue temperature map of eastern Pacific
Computer simulations show that a driver of annual weather cycles has gone unrecognized: the changing distance between Earth and the sun.
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Berkeley Haas provides novel insight into the subscription model and that the market for online subscription services will be $900 billion by 2026.
Artist’s rendering of a human base on a new planet, aerial view.
The director of Berkeley’s Center for the Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space (CUBES) looks skyward to motivate himself for the coming day.
closeup of face of Devils Hole pupfish
New research on the Cyprinodon diabolis documents the extreme effect that these harsh conditions have had on its genetic diversity.
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Sangiovanni-Vicentelli was awarded the "Honoris Causa" for his research in electronic design at the 40th Anniversary of the Tor Vergata.
Ken Goldberg headshot
Ken Goldberg and his lab won the Best Systems Paper at the Science and Systems conference, and Best Paper at the IEEE Conference.
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Trees in the West provide ecosystem services for the Pacific fisher, whose population in the southern Sierra Nevada population is endangered.