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Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas

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Berkeley-led consortium awarded $25 million to advance nuclear security

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Five young scholars named Sloan Research Fellows

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The old guard and Trumpism are at war. Can...

February 12, 2021

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Researchers harness quantum weirdness to speed the...

February 10, 2021

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Emirates Mars Mission, partnering with UC...

February 8, 2021

Morino Baca, a Native American graduate student in public health, works on an archaeology project in Pueblo de Abiquiú, 20 miles from Española in New Mexico where he grew up. At left, UC Berkeley student Jasper Sundeen. (Photo by Danny Sosa Aguilar)

Indigenous archaeology plows forward, despite...

February 4, 2021

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Meet our new faculty: Natacha Crooks, EECS

February 2, 2021

Gloria Tumushabe, a Ugandan graduate student at Berkeley, sits at her laptop in Walnut Creek and teaches young women in Uganda how to code during the pandemic.

COVID Stories: The chance to teach young...

February 2, 2021

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New Berkeley center will explore bipartisan security...

January 28, 2021

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New fellows program supports taking risks in science

January 28, 2021

Leo Goodman, professor emeritus of sociology and statistics, dies at 92

Leo Goodman, trailblazer in statistics and social...

January 15, 2021

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High-five or thumbs-up? New device detects which...

December 21, 2020

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The 16 facial expressions most common to emotional...

December 16, 2020

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Neuroscientists tap gamers to learn how people...

December 14, 2020

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New CRISPR-based COVID-19 test uses...

December 4, 2020

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Meet our new faculty: Sarah E. Chasins,...

November 30, 2020

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Meet our new faculty: Angjoo Kanazawa,...

November 30, 2020

Sanjay Kumar(top left), Spencer Klein, Margaret Conkey, Robert Ritchie (bottom left) and Peidong Yang are the five new Berkeley scholars elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Five Berkeley top scholars named AAAS fellows

November 24, 2020

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