Research News

Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area, a new book by geographer Richard Walker, sets off some seismic tremors in its unflinching evaluation of the perch of Silicon Valley.

Can the 12,800 egg sets in the collection of Museum of Vertebrate Zoology tell us why some eggs are oval, and others are round?

New research demonstrates that exposing sorghum plants to drought conditions can shift the balance between specific types of microorganisms found within their root systems.

Engineers have developed a thin-film system that can be applied to sources of waste heat like these to produce energy at levels unprecedented for this kind of technology.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has selected Patrick Gonzalez as a lead author for its next major report on climate change.

Now, a research team has opened the door to using other metals in lithium-based batteries, and have built cathodes with 50 percent more lithium-storage capacity than conventional materials.

Now, Berkeley engineers have taken neural dust a step forward by building the smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulator to date.

It’s still easy to tell computer-simulated motions from the real thing – on the big screen or in video games, simulated humans and animals often move clumsily, without the rhythm and fluidity of their real-world counterparts.

Thanks to low-noise superconducting quantum amplifiers invented at UC Berkeley, physicists are now embarking on the most sensitive search yet for axions, one of today’s top candidates for dark matter.

Once widely used as a cure-all for an array of ailments, leeches are making a resurgence in the medical community just for being their bloodthirsty selves.

In 1929, a young physicist named Ernest Lawrence was going through physics periodicals in the library when he came across a diagram in an obscure technical journal.

Low-achieving, non-white and poor students stand to gain the most academically from attending charter schools but are less likely to seek charter school enrollment than higher-achieving, more advantaged students who live closer to charter schools.

A decade after the last housing crash, the mortgage market faces the risk of another meltdown that could endanger the economy.

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing – the bending of light by massive galaxy clusters in the line of sight – can magnify the distant universe and make dim, far away objects visible.

It may be time to tailor students’ class schedules to their natural biological rhythms, according to a new study.

A new study has found that people who ate more fast food were exposed to higher levels of potentially harmful chemicals known as phthalates than people who ate more home-cooked meals.