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A home with severe fire damage, including a collapsed roof, broken windows and smoke damage, stands next to a home that appears undamaged.

Research

California communities can reduce wildfire damage by half. Here’s how.

A new UC Berkeley-led study demonstrates how two mitigation strategies — home hardening and defensible space — can have a major impact on wildfire destructiveness.

A silver- and black-colored humanoid robot grasps an orange with a mechanical hand. Three people stand behind the robot taking photos.

Research

Are we truly on the verge of the humanoid robot revolution?

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Technology & engineering

How seeing the new color ‘olo’ opens the realm of vision science

Ann Johnson sits in her wheelchair with a cord plugged into a neuroprosthesis implant while she participates in a clinical trial helping to restore her ability to speak with a brain-computer interface

Research

A stroke stole her ability to speak. Eighteen years later, scientists used AI to bring it back.

An illustration of two robotic snakes investigating an underwater beam.

UC Berkeley engineers develop energy-efficient sensors that work underwater

An illustration shows a material with alternating horizontal and vertical grooves.

New AI-driven platform creates metamaterials for the real world

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

A white, headless robot body against a green background.

Berkeley engineers develop customizable, 3D-printed robot for tech newbies

Crowds of students are gathered in a sunny atrium in UC Berkeley's Grimes Engineering Center.

Behind the design of Berkeley’s new Grimes Engineering Center

An light blue illustration of a DNA double helix

UC Berkeley scientists are teaching computers to speak the language of life

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Audio article

Berkeley Voices: How seeing a new color stretches the limits of human perception

Ann Johnson sits in her wheelchair with a cord plugged into a neuroprosthesis implant while she participates in a clinical trial helping to restore her ability to speak with a brain-computer interface
Audio article

Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

A profile of a brightly colored peacock head against a red and purple background.

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

two women smiling. Each cutout headshot is inside a light blue circle on an even lighter blue background.

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

A person bends over to tie their running shoe, with a water bottle in the foreground.

New wearable sweat sensor can track your hydration status

Closeup of gloved hands connecting a brain-computer-interface to the back of research participant's head.

Streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech

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