Science & environment

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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

Two steelhead trout swim within the bubbling waters of a flowing stream.

A single dry winter decimated California’s salmon and trout populations

April 3, 2025

A male patient arrives at the therapy clinic complaining of low back pain. The therapist examines the patient's physical pain in examination room photo.

To understand low back pain, researchers are looking closely at how our bodies move

April 2, 2025

Alex Filippenko and Pat Joseph talk onstage

The Edge: Life, the universe and everything with Berkeley astrophysicist Alex Filippenko

March 25, 2025

3 gold circles against a blue background, with leaping squirrels in two and a leaping robot in the middle

No robot can match a squirrel’s ability to leap from limb to limb — until now

March 19, 2025

a large green iguana with narrow yellow stripes rests on the lower trunk of a palm tree with a beach and ocean in the background

Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji

March 17, 2025

Clouds of white-gray smoke billow from three smokestacks against a blue sky

Nearly 40% of companies missed 2020 climate targets, with no consequences

March 12, 2025

purple-gloved fingers hold a glass vial with black liquid at the bottom

Chemists create new molecular compound from Berkeley’s eponymous element, Berkelium

March 11, 2025

Two people sit on chairs made from tree trunks and smile at the camera. Behind them is a long wooden table that holds basketry and serving utensils.

Initiative aims to create a ‘rightful presence’ for the Ohlone community at UC Berkeley

February 27, 2025