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Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award

Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

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Awards

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

UC Berkeley Emeritus Professor of Physics John Clarke is pictured in a portrait, wearing a blue button-down shirt.

Awards

John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Science & environment

Berkeley Talks: Long considered ‘too big to fail,’ the ocean needs a new narrative

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Berkeley microbiologist explains the wonder of viruses in 101 seconds

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Fossilized ear bones rewrite the history of freshwater fish

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Nobelist George Smoot, whose satellite experiments validated the Big Bang theory, dies at 80

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The history of vaccine hesitancy, from smallpox to COVID-19

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NASA launches spacecraft with UC Berkeley-built instruments to study Earth’s hydrogen halo

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In the wild, chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day

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UC experts explain how the U.S. became a science superpower

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Watch a professor explain agroecology in 101 seconds

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Campus Bridging Project event will seek to cross professor-graduate student divides in biosciences labs

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California communities can reduce wildfire damage by half. Here’s how.

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Berkeley Talks: Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR and the future of gene editing

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Wing-like fans on the feet of ripple bugs inspire a novel propulsion system for miniature robots

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