labs

illustration of two people arguing

Mind & body

I say dog, you say chicken? New study explores why we disagree so often

New research shows our ideas about even the most basic words vary widely, helping explain why we talk past each other.

Irfan Siddiqui accepts award

Awards

Physics lab wins grand prize for safety

Charles Shank, President Obama, Claudio Pellegrini

Awards

Emeritus prof, former lab director Shank receives Fermi science award

Barbara Lee, Costas Spanos

Campus & community

CITRIS and Marvell Lab in the national spotlight

A spark of new energy in Africa

Berkeley Global Campus

Major milestone for Richmond Bay Campus

stadium

New campus gateway emerging at Memorial Stadium

PPE lab coat

Free lab coats draw a crowd, as event continues through Thursday

lab researcher in PPE

Lab coats being distributed free at Memorial Stadium this week

fracking

Symposium spotlights clean-technology solutions

three lab researchers

New measures to make Berkeley labs, workshops safer

light beacon campanile

Fiat lux: Mirrors flash sunlight from top of Campanile

computer

Spark, born in Berkeley’s AMPLab, ‘rewrites future of big data’

bubbles

Heady mathematics: Describing popping bubbles in a foam

moon dust

Melvin Calvin’s moon dust rediscovered at Berkeley Lab

drone

I School’s Drone Lab looks at positive uses of unpiloted aircraft

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