Science & environment

Watch: How UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory leads NASA missions like ESCAPADE - Video

Perched high in the hills above campus, it's one of only two university-based centers in the U.S. capable of managing the entire life cycle of a satellite mission.

Research

Berkeley helped make IceCube a success — and earn its leader the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Science & environment

A UC Berkeley undergraduate’s research leads to an astronomical first

Biology

Tribal members saw pinyon-juniper woodlands declining. A new study confirms it.

Watch: A sustainable construction material is reinvented at UC Berkeley’s Wood Lab - Video

The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth’s history

Desert soils pull in carbon dioxide at night, Berkeley researchers find

To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own

New digital tool shows where exactly California’s water goes — and how climate change might disrupt it

Decagon wave emerges near Saturn’s south pole

Changes to California’s landscapes may influence Valley fever risk

Clues to longevity may reside in the genomes of long-lived bats

Watch: Decode the chatter of birds with a Berkeley neuroscientist - Video

After 34 years of debilitating sickle cell crises, CRISPR gave her a new chance at life

Can ‘digital twins’ help California manage its growing flood risk?

Why we don’t need more data centers to build better AI

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