Berkeley News

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Research

On Jupiter, it’s mushballs all the way down

Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet’s poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real.

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Arts & culture

Cal Performances announces its 2025-26 season

Laura Paxton Hassner stands at a podium giving a talk about the Berkeley Changemaker program to an audience.

Campus & community

This new course teaches UC Berkeley students the (nearly) lost art of disagreement

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Research

UC Berkeley analysis finds steep increase of self-harm among California girls, multiracial youth

Spotlight: Federal Updates

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UC updates on federal policy issues

A message about our commitment to UC Berkeley’s values and mission

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A message about recent federal visa program updates

Research

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Research

Half of the universe’s hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been found

New measurements of the diffuse ionized hydrogen surrounding galaxies account for missing mass.

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Campus news

Got eggs? This UC Berkeley museum has tens of thousands.

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Humanities

Watch a professor explain the internet’s series of subsea tubes in 101 seconds

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Research

A single dry winter decimated California’s salmon and trout populations

A male patient arrives at the therapy clinic complaining of low back pain. The therapist examines the patient's physical pain in examination room photo.

Research

To understand low back pain, researchers are looking closely at how our bodies move

Arts & culture

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Out in Richmond, an unusual facility hosts UC Berkeley’s MFA art studios

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Ahead of ‘The White Lotus’ finale, Berkeley professor unpacks show’s Freudian themes and fantasies

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Podcasts

Berkeley Talks: J Finley on how Black women use sass to claim their humanity

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Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

People

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After a 50-year leave of absence, returning to Berkeley’s School of Journalism

Ashmita Kumar holds a prize from startup competition at UC Berkeley.

With AI and an iPhone, UC Berkeley student’s startup aims to detect stroke signs and save lives

Campus & community

Creekside Center, the new home of the Disabled Students' Program, is a building that was designed in 1920 by campus architect John Galen Howard. When it was renovated, the two-story wood frame building retained its wood plank exterior walls and windows with tiny square panes.

Introducing Creekside Center, a new home for UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program

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UC Berkeley graduate programs soar to elite status in latest US News rankings

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