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A close up of a small shrew sitting in grass and leaves.

Research

California’s most elusive mammal photographed for the first time

A UC Berkeley student and alum tracked down the Mount Lyell shrew, the only known mammal in California to lack photographic documentation.

A hand holds up a European green crab, revealing it's yellow-colored underside.

Research

Invasive green crabs offer lessons on ecosystem management amid environmental change

a brown grasshopper on sand soil

Research

Life cycles of some insects adapt well to a changing climate. Others, not so much.

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

Research

Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

side view of a brown fly, and closeup of abdomen with 2 dark spots

Fly vs. wasp: Stealing a defense move helps thwart a predator

red and black human figures on the wall of a cave, with DNA helices inside each figure

A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans

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Bruce Ames, developer of a simple, widely used test to detect carcinogens, is dead at 95

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David Baker, a UC Berkeley Ph.D., awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Alumnus Gary Ruvkun shares 2024 Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA

Fish swim among seaweed and anemones

New center to advance use of seaweed in the global economy

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Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?

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A Q&A with the new dean of biological sciences, Richard Harland

Aileen Liu, Hernan Garcia, Christian Paiz and Arianne Eason sit in chairs on a dark stage and talk

Berkeley Talks: What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss

outline sketches of grains: corn, wheat and rice

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

an orange slice of bread and an orange liquid in a white bowl being topped with a drop of amber liquid from a pipette

Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

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Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

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