Science & environment

woman plants spring transplants at a small-scale farm in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Berkeley Talks: Feeding the world without ‘eating the earth’

UC Berkeley Professor Timothy Bowles and journalist Michael Grunwald discuss the impact of our current agricultural methods and debate the ways we can ramp up food production without causing more harm to the environment.

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Research

Leinweber Foundation and UC Berkeley establish $18 million endowment to fund theoretical physics research

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Research

Berkeley Voices: How seeing a new color stretches the limits of human perception

Nine students stand outside on the UC Berkeley campus, with the campanile visible in the background.

Education

This university alliance is training students to strengthen tribal food, energy and water systems

painting of a bright pink flamingo against a deep blue background, standing in water and creating little tornados

Flamingos create water tornados to trap their prey

a man in a red hat and winter gear stands onboard the green deck of a ship with red railing in Antarctica. He is holding a camera and filming something, looking focused.

In a tiny boat 7,800 miles from UC Berkeley, graduate students made a daring documentary

an orange star is stretched out to loop around a dark oval at the center of a pink swirling mass

Not one, but two massive black holes are eating away at this galaxy

A lone wolf walks through yellow grassland

What we really need in the fight against extinction

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Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

An illustration showing purple, rod-shaped bacteria against a swirling blue background.

UC Berkeley research reveals the not-so-secret life of gut bacteria

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Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

A farmer stands in a corn field and inspects a stalk of corn.

New tool helps protect corn farmers and insurers from future climate extremes

Artificial leaf uses sunlight to capture carbon and produce valuable chemicals

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

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A spate of suicides drew this alumna back to UC Berkeley to confront mental health issues in academia

A new electric train at the Caltrain San Francisco station.

Electric trains are quieter, more reliable than diesel. New study finds they’re healthier, too.

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