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an insect with legs outstretched on the surface of water, showing fan-like feet

Wing-like fans on the feet of ripple bugs inspire a novel propulsion system for miniature robots

August 21, 2025

a cluster of round, pink blobs against a sky-blue background

Scientists hack microbes to identify environmental sources of methane

August 14, 2025

two small, furry brown rodents huddled together

Is the ‘love hormone,’ oxytocin, also the ‘friendship hormone’?

August 11, 2025

A camera trap photo shows a gray wolf walking along a path in the woods, carrying a small black pup in its mouth.

Pups in tow, Yellowstone-area wolves trek long distances to stay near prey

August 1, 2025

rendering of a glass-fronted, seven-story building with tree-lined streets and people walking around

CRISPR researchers and startup entrepreneurs will share new building in UC Berkeley’s Innovation Zone

July 17, 2025

A furry brown bat hangs upside down from a piece of fruit.

UC Berkeley scientists uncover neural mechanisms behind long-term memory

July 9, 2025

an embryonic zebrafish colored blue, green and magenta

Repairing the heart: If zebrafish can do it, why not humans?

July 9, 2025

An illustration shows a ring of small purple particles, representing disease proteins, sitting on a surface. The ring is partially covered by a droplet of liquid containing enlarged cartoons of plasmonic particles.

From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy

July 8, 2025

B&W photo of smiling woman standing at chalkboard

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86

July 8, 2025

a line of Indian women in colorful saris, with their children

Scientists complete the most thorough analysis yet of India’s genetic diversity

June 26, 2025

Michael Bolden selected to be next dean of UC Berkeley Journalism

June 10, 2025

three men and a woman staring at a blackboard as one person explains the figures on the board

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

May 28, 2025

an artistic rendering of the folds of the human brain, colored blue and bright yellow and red

Are groovy brains more efficient?

May 21, 2025

green blob representing CRISPR enzyme on a blue double helix of DNA

Federal appeals court sends CRISPR-Cas9 patent case back to patent office for reconsideration

May 12, 2025

painting of a bright pink flamingo against a deep blue background, standing in water and creating little tornados

Flamingos create water tornados to trap their prey

May 12, 2025

an orange star is stretched out to loop around a dark oval at the center of a pink swirling mass

Not one, but two massive black holes are eating away at this galaxy

May 8, 2025