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several rows of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages on a shelf

Mind & body

Bay Area soda taxes don’t just affect sales. They help change people’s minds.

UC Berkeley researchers found that taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, coupled with media attention, coincided with significant changes in social norms around sugary drinks.

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Research

Black students are punished more often, ‘no matter how you slice it’

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Mind & body

Sugar restrictions in early childhood reduce risk of later chronic disease, study finds

The White House in Washington D.C. at night, illuminated with lights and with a fountain in the foreground shooting water into the air.

Mind & body

Anxious about the election? UC Berkeley psychologists explain how to cope

an older man, at left, confers in a medical office with a doctor (at right) who is holding out a prescription vial.

“Altruistic” doctors put patients before profits — and achieve better results, study finds

man in glasses next to microscope looking into the camera

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

Two people on a construction site talk, with a heart rate monitor line transposed on the lower part of the image, symbolizing the link between workplaces and health outcomes.

Racially balanced workplaces may protect employees against cardiovascular disease

a symmetric, oblong object covered with tiny patches of gray and bubble-gum yellows, blues, oranges and reds

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

Coches manejan a través de esmog en un autopista de California

California ha mejorado la calidad del aire, pero persisten las desigualdades raciales/étnicas

Cars drive through smoggy air on a California highway

California has dramatically improved its air quality, but racial disparities persist

A black and white illustration depicts an artist’s imagining of an aquifer, showing a large underground mass sprouting a collection of small arms that reach for the roots of plants growing above.

Can an aquifer be injured? Scholar brings a disability lens to ecological repair

an illustration showing firearm bullets, a city, and a community garden, as if to indicate the ways that gun violence is connected to the built environment and public policy

UC Berkeley course explores gun violence as a public health issue

Altered States: Will doctors soon prescribe ecstasy?

glowing green elongated worms cluster together like segments of an orange

Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?

UC Berkeley study finds arsenic, lead, other toxic metals in tampons

A close-up photo of a plant with a small white flower.

Can engineered plants help make baby formula as nutritious as breast milk?

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