Experimental trials of psychedelic drugs in both humans and animals have produced conflicting results, creating doubts about whether hallucinogens have a therapeutic role in treating neurologic or ...

Across the span of six decades, Robert B. Reich has had two constant commitments: to social justice and to teaching. In Reich’s universe, one is not more important than the other. They are ...

When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the two winners of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the UC Berkeley economics community celebrated ...

Chatbots and large language models can execute a seemingly countless number of tasks, from writing emails and reports to generating code and analyzing data. However, they still primarily act only in ...

When Meredith Minkler arrived at UC Berkeley to begin her doctorate in public health, she was 22 years old. The Summer of Love was happening in San Francisco, Lyndon B. Johnson was in the White House ...

When people think of ancient civilizations that paved the path toward modernity, the Greeks and Romans are often top of mind. But before Rome dominated the Mediterranean, another culture laid the ...

There’s not a bad seat in the state-of-the-art 400-person auditorium. A naturally lit classroom feels more like a rustic retreat than a standard space to learn calculus. The fifth-floor conference ...

The four-foot-tall Emperor penguin of Antarctica may be the most iconic member of this unique family of birds, but 17 other species of penguins populate the Southern Hemisphere, many of them confined ...

Americans who grow up in historically violent states may move to a safer state, but they remain far more likely to die violently, according to new research co-authored at the University of California, ...

Gains by students who went through the state’s prekindergarten programs in the 2010s were still evident in third and fourth ...

Berkeley’s newest space telescope, COSI, is one of many instruments built at the Space Sciences Laboratory. By Charlotte ...

Proposition 40, the controversial measure to impose a one-time tax on California billionaires, has the support of 48% of likely voters ahead of November’s election, with 41% opposed, according to a ...