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About a dozen volunteer rescue workers wearing GoPro cameras on their white helmets, carry a person on a stretcher out of rubble in Syria

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war

“We keep raising awareness and reminding the world that we cannot achieve peace without justice,” said the leader of the Syria Civil Defence, widely known as the White Helmets.

the student section at a UC Berkeley football game in Memorial Stadium. A group of spirited students, some with

Campus & community

Everything you need to know about ESPN GameDay’s Saturday visit

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Mind & body

Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?

UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons looks into the camera, gesturing while speaking.

People

A message from Chancellor Lyons on the 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement

Spotlight: Free Speech

A historical photo of Mario Savio and other student protestors marching through Sather Gate on November 20, 1964

Free Speech at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky talks to the camera next to a still photo of protestors holding a banner that reads

Watch the dean of Berkeley Law explain free speech in 101 seconds

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Bridging divides: from anger and mistrust to belonging — and hope

Research

UC Berkeley Professor Hany Farid sits speaking to the camera next to a still of

Research

Watch a UC Berkeley digital forensics expert break down political deepfakes

AI-generated political content has already wreaked havoc and tilted elections. Here’s how to spot it.

a silvery Earth in the foreground with a bright white ball in the distance

Research

This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now

two toddlers in a room, with one looking over the shoulder of the other as they play with blocks. the child playing with the blocks has amassed several in front of him.

Mind & body

Can toddlers help explain the origins of our bias for wealth?

UC Berkeley professor Randy Schekman looks into the camera with a still image of microscopic yeast cells behind him

Research

How looking closely led this cell biologist to world-changing breakthroughs

A microscope image shows purple blobs against a black background.

Research

Bringing clarity to microscopic imaging

Arts & culture

Seven acrobatic performers dressed like pro wrestlers perform a scene in a ring

Circus arts meet pro wrestling in a raucous theatrical performance

Performers on stage in the Broadway show,

Two centuries later, performance spaces still struggle with ‘soft censorship’

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Podcasts

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Berkeley’s john a. powell and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson discuss her new memoir, ‘Lovely One’

Two students hold an Israeli flag and two students hold up a Palestinian flag standing next to one another on the Berkeley campus with at least one hundred students on Sproul Plaza in the background

Berkeley Talks: Legal scholars on free speech challenges facing universities today

People

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Physicist Paul Richards, a pioneer in studies of the cosmic microwave background, dies at 90

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A Q&A with the new dean of biological sciences, Richard Harland

Campus & community

Fish swim among seaweed and anemones

New center to advance use of seaweed in the global economy

Jack Weinberg sits in a police car in 1964 with his arms folded out the window, surrounded by police and protesters

How Freedom Summer activists brought the Free Speech Movement to Berkeley

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