The unprecedented project gives policymakers and the public an easy way to look up local ordinances and examine what works — ...

Each year in the U.S., more than 300,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest, a condition where the heart’s electrical system malfunctions without warning. The medical emergency can kill both ...

A novel study by UC Berkeley scholars finds that when Americans are presented with complex decisions on immigration, climate ...

In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley campus, two bespoke microscopes — each a Swiss Army knife for high-resolution imaging — operate around the clock gathering data ...

• Nearly 73% of California adolescents with treated self-harm injuries between 2005-2021 were girls. • There’s been an approximately 75% increase in reports of multiracial teens treated for self-harm ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar — a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star — and confirmed that it’s the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in ...

UC Berkeley supernova and black hole expert Alex Filippenko will share the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize, which was announced today (May 19) by the Gruber Foundation. The prize, one of the most ...

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced the names of the 126 early-career researchers selected to receive 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, including seven from UC Berkeley. The fellowships ...

UC Berkeley biologists and engineers teamed up to discover how squirrels are able to land and balance on a narrow branch, and then apply what they learned to the design of a robot, Salto, that can ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project — called ...

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 ...

A California timber mill will be the first in the country to manufacture this eco-friendly, engineered wood product.