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New UC Berkeley Center to Address American Competitiveness in Advanced Technology
New Berkeley Center will provide expert scholarly advice to lawmakers on technology policy development to ensure global leadership in technology development.
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Asta Mønsted Reveals Greenland Through the Inuit Oral Tradition
UC Berkeley assistant professor prioritizes Indigenous knowledge and narratives, seeking to integrate them with scholarly theories and methods.
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Three Berkeley Engineering Professors Named to NAE
The National Academy of Engineering has elected three Berkeley engineering professors for their outstanding contributions to engineering practice, research or education.
The Dorsal Grasper, with its supernumerary robotic fingers, can expand the range of graspable objects and workspace.
New Device Enhances Grasping for People With Spinal Cord Injuries
Test subjects found that they could easily grasp objects anywhere they could reach their arm, without having to rotate their bodies.
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In Pursuit of a Poison Frog — and a Culturally Appropriate Name
A Berkeley professor and her colleagues tracked down a new species along that country's pacific coast, naming it in honor of an Afro-Colombian music style.
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Watch a Professor Explain the Evolutionary War That Gave Us Caffeine
Berkeley professor explains how the food we love is the product of four billion years of coevolution between plants and animals.
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Why Conspiracies Are So Popular — and What We Can Do To Stop Them
Berkeley professor uses lessons from folklore and AI to understand how social media fuels the spread of conspiracies.
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UC Berkeley Guide Helps Business Leaders Navigate AI Ethics
New research offers insight on how to responsibly navigate high-stakes AI issues like data privacy, transparency, biases, inaccuracies, and security.
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How Worried Should You Be About Bird Flu?
Dr. John Swartzberg denotes that bird flu continues to spread in the U.S. and around the world, raising concerns about its evolution and potential risks to human health.
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Balancing Action and Acceptance Amidst Rapid Environmental Change
Berkeley researchers examined efforts to manage the European green crab, an invasive marine species that has spread to every continent except Antarctica.
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Life Cycles of Some Insects Adapt Well to a Changing Climate
New research shows grasshoppers that overwinter as juveniles have a head start on those that emerge in the spring.
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Using AI, These Robots Learn Complicated Skills with Startling Accuracy
UC Berkeley researchers devised a fast and precise way to teach robots tasks like assembling a motherboard or an IKEA drawer.
Picture of man with white hair and beard. The image has these words. WE ARE CAL and COOKING ON A SLOW FIRE AND LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE ARE MORE SIMILAR THAN YOU THINK; PROFESSOR HARSHA RAM ON SOLVING THE CRISIS OF ATTENTION
Slow Fire Cooking and Learning a New Language - More Similar Than You Think
Professor Harsha Ram On Solving The Crisis Of Attention
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When Stress Levels are High, this Program Turns to Exercise as Medicine
Exercise is Medicine On Campus is a popular health, wellness and research initiative, providing students consultations with coaches and mentors each year.
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California’s Most Elusive Mammal Photographed for the First Time
A tiny, elusive mammal native to a small stretch of the Sierra Nevada has been photographed for the first time by a team led by UC Berkeley student researchers.
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Professor Launches Company Centered Around “Agentic AI”
Assistant professor Niloufar Salehi, along with her team, has launched Across AI, a startup pioneering agentic AI for complex enterprise workflows.