Podcast: Berkeley Voices

A stylized digital composite photo of a woman looking upward with an intense expression. The image uses a cool blue and purple color palette. A luminous moon-like circle is superimposed over the right side of her face, creating a dreamlike or nocturnal atmosphere that evokes themes of sleep and anxiety.

When better sleep becomes ‘crisis work’ - Audio

April 16, 2026

Ted Miguel poses in a group photo in 1998 with about a dozen NGO members working on the deworming project in Busia, Kenya

What do parasitic worms and wages have in common? More than you think - Audio

March 5, 2026

two images set side by side to show the contrast between different housing in Bangkok, Thailand. On the left is rundown housing on stilts in the water; on the right is a new upgraded neighborhood made possible by the government's

The U.S. housing crisis looms large. Could a Thai model help solve it? - Audio

February 5, 2026

Victoria Gray

Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure - Audio

January 8, 2026

Professor Juana María Rodríguez and student Mia Aguilar talk and laugh in Juana's office surrounded by a bright red wall and red desk

Wikipedia as resistance: This UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible - Audio

December 4, 2025

Tyler Lee-Wynant stands among shelves lined with boxes of archival materials in the California Language Archive

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture. - Audio

November 6, 2025

Berkeley Voices season 2: Two sides of a story - Audio

November 4, 2025

closeup of a peacock feather that resembles an eye

How seeing a new color stretches the limits of human perception - Audio

May 26, 2025

Ann Johnson sits in her wheelchair with a cord plugged into a neuroprosthesis implant while she participates in a clinical trial helping to restore her ability to speak with a brain-computer interface

A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again. - Audio

April 28, 2025

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art? - Audio

March 31, 2025

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship - Audio

February 24, 2025

line drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head

We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it? - Audio

January 27, 2025

Jack Tseng stands on the second floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building looking down on a replica of a T. rex

Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again. - Audio

December 30, 2024

Poulomi Saha stands in front of a huge fireplace surrounded with decorative wrought iron.

As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults - Audio

November 25, 2024

a simple continuous line drawing of a face that suggests the many dimensions of a person's personality

Psychopathy goes undetected in some people. Why? - Audio

October 28, 2024