Research

Awards

Two winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in economics have deep ties to UC Berkeley

Berkeley’s world-class economics department is celebrating Nobels won by two scholars: Robert E. Hall, a 1964 graduate and early-career faculty member, and Michael Woodford, a visiting scholar in the 2025-26 academic year.

Research

A global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible, says new report

Mind & body

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things

Awards

Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature, with a chapter at UC Berkeley

Watch: How UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory leads NASA missions like ESCAPADE - Video

Berkeley helped make IceCube a success — and earn its leader the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

As the suicide rate grows among Black youth, here’s where a Berkeley researcher sees reason for hope

A UC Berkeley undergraduate’s research leads to an astronomical first

U.S. builds a ‘systematic’ global deportation network, violating migrant rights, study finds

Tribal members saw pinyon-juniper woodlands declining. A new study confirms it.

On complex political issues, most Americans take shortcuts to simplicity

New UC Berkeley Journalism project will complete threatened reporters’ investigations

Murkowski has sharp words for both parties during Goldman School talk

Chimps plunder less pineapple from friends — and expect them to do the same

Watch: A sustainable construction material is reinvented at UC Berkeley’s Wood Lab - Video

Voices Carry: The human rights impacts of large language models - Audio

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