chemistry

Awards

Two UC Berkeley scholars elected to the American Philosophical Society

Historian Carla Hesse and chemist Jeffrey Long were named to the oldest scholarly society in the nation.

Science & environment

Berkeley Talks: Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi on turning air into water for all - Audio

Science & environment

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

Awards

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Berkeley Talks: Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR and the future of gene editing - Audio

Artificial leaf uses sunlight to capture carbon and produce valuable chemicals

Investigating the psychedelic blue lotus of Egypt, where ancient magic meets modern science

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

UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Breakthrough in capturing ‘hot’ CO2 from industrial exhaust

Capturing carbon from the air just got easier

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

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics - Video

Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation? - Video

UC Berkeley neuroscientist and nanoscientist among this year’s Kavli Prize winners - Video

EVs are lowering Bay Area’s carbon footprint

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