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outline sketches of grains: corn, wheat and rice

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

September 4, 2024

a bearded man wearing goggles adjust equipment inside a fume hood

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

August 29, 2024

an orange slice of bread and an orange liquid in a white bowl being topped with a drop of amber liquid from a pipette

Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

August 29, 2024

a ball of blue blobs with hundreds of orange hairs sticking out

Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

August 22, 2024

a small white and black tube sits on pebbly red ground in the shade of the Insight lander on Mars

Rocks collected on Mars hold key to water and perhaps life on the planet. Bring them back to Earth.

August 14, 2024

the bridk-red planet Mars with white caps at poles

Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.

August 12, 2024

glowing green elongated worms cluster together like segments of an orange

Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?

August 7, 2024

dirty white glacier ending at blue lake with deep blue sky above

Size of tropical glaciers at lowest point in at least 11,000 years

August 1, 2024

cutout headshots of four people against a blue and gold background

Four new faculty hires are a quantum leap for experimental physics

August 1, 2024

a silver ring surrounds a pink and blue stack of disk representing clusters of atoms

With a new, incredibly precise instrument, Berkeley researchers narrow search for dark energy

June 26, 2024

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

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

June 13, 2024

side by side portraits of a woman and a man

UC Berkeley neuroscientist and nanoscientist among this year’s Kavli Prize winners

June 12, 2024

a mottled reddish blue disk

With new, sharper optics, Arizona telescope captures rare images of Jupiter’s moon Io

May 30, 2024

outlines in red of a woman's torso and four circles containing a thermometer, a face with a rash, a painful knee and a woman sleeping

Tracking down the genetic causes of lupus to personalize treatment

May 23, 2024

black-and-white photo of race start, showing men propelling themselves off the starting blocks

Far from toxic, lactate rivals glucose as body’s major fuel after a carbohydrate meal

May 14, 2024

young Indian man spraying water on himself to cool off

Record-breaking heat and humidity predicted for tropics this summer

April 22, 2024