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Research

For 21 years, enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET. UC Berkeley scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found.

UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most popular crowd-sourced research projects ever, turned up some 12 billion signals of interest. A lengthy analysis found 100 worth another look.

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Research

Astronomers see fireworks from violent collisions around nearby star

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Humanities

From Bob Dylan to Ice Cube: Mapping 60 years of storytelling in pop lyrics

Research

A new ‘hypertropical’ climate is emerging in the Amazon

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All life copies DNA unambiguously into proteins. Archaea may be the exception.

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How UC Berkeley is improving the affordability of hydrogen fuel

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Prescribed burning helps store forest carbon in big, fire-resistant trees

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Even moderate heat waves depress sea urchin reproduction along the Pacific coast

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

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Finch chirps are more than mindless chatter. They actually convey meaning.

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Gel nail manicures come with exposure to skin-damaging UV. A UC Berkeley chemist has a solution.

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

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

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Fossilized ear bones rewrite the history of freshwater fish

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Former Air Force chief scientist to guide program development at Berkeley Space Center

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

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