Berkeley News

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Research

Gel nail manicures come with exposure to skin-damaging UV. A UC Berkeley chemist has a solution.

A key discovery in a Berkeley lab led to a spray, now on the market, that protects skin from the cancer-causing UV emitted by gel hardening lamps — without affecting the nails’ looks or durability.

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Politics & society

UC Berkeley launches major security initiative to address global nuclear risks

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Awards

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

UC Berkeley Emeritus Professor of Physics John Clarke is pictured in a portrait, wearing a blue button-down shirt.

Awards

John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

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Watch a professor explain community-engaged research in 101 seconds

A group of students sits in a large yellow disposal bin that is filled with small twigs and branches. The bin is on a hilly street next to a white house.

Wildfire season is here. UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepare.

Students point toward poster paper on the wall during an exercise about the ways to better understand chronic absenteeism among students.

With high schoolers’ help, UC Berkeley researchers investigate why so many students are chronically absent

Research

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Awards

Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award

Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

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Biology

Berkeley microbiologist explains the wonder of viruses in 101 seconds

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Research

With these devices, the doctor is always in

Dozens of headshots of men and women in which, taken together, the women appear younger on average than the men

Business & economics

Women portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias

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Research

Fossilized ear bones rewrite the history of freshwater fish

Arts & culture

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In new African lit exhibit, stories challenge and enchant

Hannah Hoffman hands items to Lara Michels of Bancroft Library at St. Hieronymus Press

Iconic Berkeley printmaker’s archive comes to The Bancroft Library

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Podcasts

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Berkeley Talks: How art allows us to see everyday things anew

Arneta Rogers

Voices Carry: Reproductive justice lawyer on the post-Dobbs landscape

People

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Former Air Force chief scientist to guide program development at Berkeley Space Center

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Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley psychologist, receives prestigious lifetime achievement award

Campus & community

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UC Berkeley rated No. 1 public university in North America by Times Higher Education

Chancellor Rich Lyons, left, speaks to an audience about startup culture at UC Berkeley while Ana Claudia Arias, center, and Ken Goldberg, right, look on

Chancellor, scholars and alum discuss Berkeley’s culture of innovation

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