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

UC Berkeley Professor Poulomi Saha, who teaches a class on cults in popular culture, says students today see limited economic possibilities, the scourge of war and the looming threat of climate change and think, "It doesn't have to be this way."

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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.

The White House in Washington D.C. at night, illuminated with lights and with a fountain in the foreground shooting water into the air.

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

An overhead photo of a child using a laptop, signaling how children spend an increasing amount of time online and may be exposed to increasing amount of concerning content and disinformation

To make children better fact-checkers, expose them to more misinformation — with oversight

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David Baker, a UC Berkeley Ph.D., awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

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How UC Berkeley researchers are making online spaces safer for all

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

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.

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

Coches manejan a través de esmog en un autopista de California

California ha mejorado la calidad del aire, pero persisten las desigualdades raciales/étnicas

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