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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.
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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.
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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.
Oliver Jones
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.
Stuart Russell
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.
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Scott Straus, a UC Berkeley political scientist known for his study of political violence and genocide, has been named the Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Berkeley News queried top campus scholars for their insights on the indictment.
Joy Heitmann, a teacher at the Rockridge Little School in Oakland, sits among pre-school students
Child care in the United States is at a crossroads, and a new federal project has signaled serious interest in improving pay and other conditions in a field where women do almost all of the work.
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Data collected after one of the brightest flashes of gamma rays ever observed demonstrated that our understanding of this phenomena is woefully inadequate.
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The Enrico Fermi Presidential Award is one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government.
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The new species was found on Brown's Colusa County ranch and will be named Bembidion brownorum.
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A new study finds that disproportionately, Black, Latinx or low-income Californians are more likely to live near the most intensive oil and gas operations.
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UC Berkeley astrochemist and Cornell University astronomer explain it as an outgassing of hydrogen as the icy comet warmed up in the sunlight.
Stephanie Jones-Rogers is the author of They Were Her Property
This global recognition for outstanding work in the study of the human past is given annually recognizes emerging scholars whose work “illuminates the past in bold and creative ways.”
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When it comes to higher education, reviews have been more mixed, a blend of upbeat and uneasy. These UC Berkeley experts say that ChatGPT and similar tools are going to transform education.
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UC Berkeley scientist think the complexity can be simplified and work just as well.