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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

May 12, 2025

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

May 12, 2025

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

May 8, 2025

A lone wolf walks through yellow grassland

What we really need in the fight against extinction

May 6, 2025

smiling woman with white hair and glasses wearing a mustard blouse with black jacket

Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

May 6, 2025

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

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

May 2, 2025

a woman with dark hair and glasses wearing a blue and yellow feathered earring

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

April 30, 2025

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

April 25, 2025

Artificial leaf uses sunlight to capture carbon and produce valuable chemicals

April 25, 2025

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

April 22, 2025

two women and two men stand in front of a green gate holding the photo of a person

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

April 21, 2025

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.

April 16, 2025

layers of fuzzy blue and red clouds on a 3D grid

On Jupiter, it’s mushballs all the way down

April 15, 2025

A cassowary egg sits on cotton batting in a box. A professor is holding the box while someone touches the egg's shell with their fingers to feel the shell's texture. The egg is a shade of green that helps to camouflage it.

Got eggs? This UC Berkeley museum has tens of thousands.

April 11, 2025

a fluffy blue sphere of gas with 3 small galaxies at the center, set against a black background

Half of the universe’s hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been found

April 11, 2025

A woman on a gray background with an inset image of an armored cable going into the ocean.

Watch a professor explain the internet’s series of subsea tubes in 101 seconds

April 10, 2025