Mind & body

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

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

December 12, 2024

several rows of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages on a shelf

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

December 10, 2024

a person holding a pippette at a lab bench

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

December 10, 2024

Poulomi Saha stands in front of a huge fireplace surrounded with decorative wrought iron.

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

November 25, 2024

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

November 21, 2024

a pink brain sits inside a topless model of a human skull, with yellow bars indicating where a hand is slapping it

Watch a UC Berkeley neurologist explain how concussions really work

November 18, 2024

close-up of a bowl of Halloween candy corn

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

October 31, 2024

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

How robots could assist surgeons and improve patient outcomes

October 31, 2024

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’

October 31, 2024

a simple continuous line drawing of a face that suggests the many dimensions of a person's personality

Berkeley Voices: Psychopathy goes undetected in some people. Why?

October 28, 2024

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

October 24, 2024

man in glasses next to microscope looking into the camera

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

October 10, 2024

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

October 10, 2024

a man in blue shirt with tousled hair stands in front of a whiteboard

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

October 9, 2024

a symmetric, oblong object covered with tiny patches of gray and bubble-gum yellows, blues, oranges and reds

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

October 2, 2024

A woman with long hair stands at a podium and smiles at people seated nearby.

How UC Berkeley researchers are making online spaces safer for all

September 30, 2024