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How Berkeley researchers decoded the loopy physics of hula hooping

When UC Berkeley professor Oliver O’Reilly and his collaborators used a novel method to understand which motions are crucial for hula hooping, their results challenged 20 years of conventional wisdom.

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How Berkeley shaped NASA’s newest space telescope

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Berkeley helped make IceCube a success — and earn its leader the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

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The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth’s history

A breakthrough in electron microscopy delivers sharper images of our body’s tiniest proteins

Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it. - Video

Why are Tatooine planets rare? Blame general relativity.

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — will launch in early November - Video

Atomic clocks: counting the seconds that could change physics - Video

Parasitic worms rely on static electricity to find prey in midair - Video

John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

Gov. Newsom visits UC Berkeley to sign bill encouraging quantum innovation

Nobelist George Smoot, whose satellite experiments validated the Big Bang theory, dies at 80

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86

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

Seven faculty members named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

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