Mind & body

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Awards

UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Announced by President Joe Biden, the award honors the nation's technological trailblazers

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Mind & body

Psychology researchers awarded $4.5 million grant for bipolar disorder study

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Campus & community

Science of Happiness: How to find calm through walking

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Mind & body

A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans

Two monkeys sit on a branch, with one looking disapprovingly toward the other.

Do animals get jealous like people? Researchers say it’s complicated.

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Bay Area soda taxes don’t just affect sales. They help change people’s minds.

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UC Berkeley professor takes stock of the CDC’s post-COVID reforms

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Berkeley Voices: As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults

A person wearing safety glasses is seen looking through the porthole of a large experimental chamber that is bathed in purple light.

UC Berkeley engineer explores the promise of nuclear medicine

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Watch a UC Berkeley neurologist explain how concussions really work

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Sugar restrictions in early childhood reduce risk of later chronic disease, study finds

A robotic arm assisting a surgeon during a minimally invasive procedure.

How robots could assist surgeons and improve patient outcomes

UC Berkeley professor of psychology looks at a still frame from the Pixar film 'Inside Out 2'

UC Berkeley professor breaks down the science of ‘Inside Out 2’

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In some people, psychopathy goes undetected. A recent UC Berkeley study offers a solution.

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Anxious about the election? UC Berkeley psychologists explain how to cope

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Bruce Ames, developer of a simple, widely used test to detect carcinogens, is dead at 95

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