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

Last month, UC Berkeley researchers tricked the eye into seeing a new color they named "olo." They say it could transform how we understand and treat eye diseases, and expand the way we see the world around us.

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

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Mind & body

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

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Awards

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

A photo of a small, white, propeller-shaped object that is held between the tips of two fingers. The object is smaller than the width of a fingernail.

UC Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot

Ashmita Kumar holds a prize from startup competition at UC Berkeley.

With AI and an iPhone, UC Berkeley student’s startup aims to detect stroke signs and save lives

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No robot can match a squirrel’s ability to leap from limb to limb — until now

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Researchers create quantum sensors by mixing diamond dust with water

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Michael I. Jordan receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award for advances in machine learning

A person is pictured holding their arm above a table. A device is strapped to the back of the person's wrist and hand, and the device is grasping a yellow tennis ball.

New device helps people with spinal cord injuries grasp large, heavy objects

a black-and-silver robotic arm with a black whip attached has just struck a tower of Jenga blocks. One of the blocks is partially dislodged and about to fall out from the tower.

Using AI, these robots learn complicated skills with startling accuracy

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New electromagnetic material draws inspiration from the color-shifting chameleon

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UC Berkeley research scientist breaks down the TikTok ban

A microscope image of a 3D-printed antenna, which has tree-like crystalline branches emerging from a central trunk.

Engineers 3D print tiny, intricate antennas

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