A UC Berkeley analysis of the carbon footprints of households around the country shows that consumers need different strategies in different cities to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. An online “carbon calculator” helps consumers decide how to change their lifestyles for the maximum reduction in their footprints.

The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), which has branches at UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Santa Cruz, will work with Deloitte to improve the institute’s efforts to convert bioscience innovation into a driver for jobs, companies and improved health in California.

The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) has entered into a collaboration with Deloitte to help the institute in its efforts to convert bioscience innovation into a driver for jobs, companies and improved health in California.

Martin White, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate dark energy using data from the BOSS experiment.

The percentage of Latino children attending preschool fell substantially during the nation’s deep recession, according to a study to be released April 8 by researchers from UC Berkeley.

UC Berkeley physicists are using some of the world’s most sensitive magnetic field detectors to determine whether plants, like animals, produce magnetic fields.

The effort to make sun power more affordable has gotten a big boost with a $25 million, five-year Department of Energy grant announced this week. The award launches the Bay Area Photovoltaics Consortium (BAPVC), led jointly by the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

UC Berkeley researchers have launched a powerful new tool, the Transportation Injury Mapping System, that allows online searches of serious and fatal crashes in California. Users can view the history of crashes by county, city, neighborhood or along specific routes.

Following a closed-door summit at UC Berkeley, leading West Coast seismologists recommended in a news conference today (Tuesday, April 5) the establishment of an earthquake early warning system in California, Oregon and Washington.

West Virginia native Brandon Nida, a Berkeley PhD candidate, is using his archaeological expertise to help protect the West Virginia battleground where thousands of coal miners, in 1921, waged the largest labor insurrection in U.S. history.