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two toddlers in a room, with one looking over the shoulder of the other as they play with blocks. the child playing with the blocks has amassed several in front of him.

Can toddlers help explain the origins of our bias for wealth?

September 18, 2024

Ussama Makdisi speaking to his class

New Palestinian and Arab Studies program established at UC Berkeley

September 9, 2024

A crowd of supporters holding signs and wearing Trump-branded shirts cheer as Donald Trump, blurred in the foreground, walks onto a stage.

Sociologist examines Appalachian voters’ rightward shift, with Trump as their ‘shame shield’

September 5, 2024

A hand holding three illustrations of faces, one with a straight face, one with a frown and one with a smile, meant to illustrate the connection between feeling stressed about being happy and how that can make a person feel sad

Stop worrying about being happy. It’s making you more depressed.

August 28, 2024

An artist rendering of several large mammoths walking through a field

To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say

August 21, 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

an illustration showing firearm bullets, a city, and a community garden, as if to indicate the ways that gun violence is connected to the built environment and public policy

UC Berkeley course explores gun violence as a public health issue

August 13, 2024

Kamala Harris speaking at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, with a crowd of people cheering behind her.

A UC Berkeley linguist explores what Kamala Harris’ voice and speech reveal about her identity

August 6, 2024

A robot made mostly of white plastic-like materials, with a round device at the back of its head, stands before a field of complex equations, pondering.

To err is human — and in the age of AI, it may be humanizing

July 31, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump in December, 2015, at a rally in Pennsylvania

After Trump’s election, women of color had more underweight, premature babies, study finds

July 25, 2024

dozens of tv screens showing various sporting events from the control room of the Beijing Olympics

What is lost — and gained — when Olympics coverage becomes a round-the-clock spectacle?

July 24, 2024

an illustration showing tampons

UC Berkeley study finds arsenic, lead, other toxic metals in tampons

July 5, 2024

Llamas anaranjadas de un incendio forestal en California ardiendo por la noche en la distancia, con la silueta de una bomba de petróleo y gas en primer plano.

Según un nuevo estudio, los incendios forestales amenazan cada vez más los pozos petroleros, lo que empeora los riesgos potenciales para la salud

June 25, 2024

orange flames from a wildfire in California burning at night in the distance, with the silhouette of an oil and gas pumpjack in the foreground.

Wildfires increasingly threaten oil and gas drill sites, compounding potential health risks, study says

June 25, 2024

a compilation of four illustrations, including of a child, a wheelchair, and a brain, all centered around the word eugenics, meant to signify the numerous ways science and society are still shaped by the legacy of eugenics.

The legacy of eugenics

June 21, 2024

young Indian man spraying water on himself to cool off

Record-breaking heat and humidity predicted for tropics this summer

April 22, 2024