Environmental engineer David Sedlak explores the serious water treatment, supply and security challenges we face, and proposes how to meet them.

A new study suggests Covered California’s authority to select health insurers successfully held down premium costs.

Berkeley’s renowned programs in artificial intelligence and robotics involve scores of professors in the College of Engineering. Their aim is to create machines with the intelligence to better serve and work with human beings.

We know that our changing climate will bring rising sea levels to the Bay Area. But do we know how to handle it?

UC Berkeley scientists have taken a step in that direction by building a “semantic atlas” that shows in vivid colors and multiple dimensions how the human brain organizes language.

Information overload and “fear of missing out” may rank among the biggest contributors to chronic indecision. But help is at hand.

Ashok Gadgil is refining an affordable water treatment technology to produce fresh drinking water from brackish water, one of many projects supported by CERC-WET.

Scientists increasingly realize the importance of gut and other microbes to our health and well-being, but one UC Berkeley biologist is asking whether these microbes — our microbiota — might also have played a role in shaping who we are by steering evolution.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 213 new members, including nine UC Berkeley faculty members.

A new analysis of the genetic diversity of cassava will help improve strategies for breeding disease resistance and climate tolerance into the root crop, a staple and major source of calories for a billion people worldwide.