Science & environment

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Campus & community

Wildfire season is here. UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepare.

UC Berkeley Professor Michael Gollner and his students are applying advanced wildfire simulation tools to help neighborhoods understand their specific wildfire risks.

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Milestones

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86

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Research

A T. rex with feathers? Scientists say dinosaurs were likely different from what most of us picture

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Mind & body

Scientists complete the most thorough analysis yet of India’s genetic diversity

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Climate change cuts global crop yields, even when farmers adapt

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Berkeley Talks: Energy justice expert on his pursuit for affordable and clean energy for all

woman plants spring transplants at a small-scale farm in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Berkeley Talks: Feeding the world without ‘eating the earth’

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Leinweber Foundation and UC Berkeley establish $18 million endowment to fund theoretical physics research

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Berkeley Voices: How seeing a new color stretches the limits of human perception

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This university alliance is training students to strengthen tribal food, energy and water systems

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Flamingos create water tornados to trap their prey

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

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Not one, but two massive black holes are eating away at this galaxy

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What we really need in the fight against extinction

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Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

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

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