Historical accounts of the eruption nearly 2,000 years ago provide a precise timeline that allowed recalibration of one of ...

A double-lung transplant reshaped Professor Greg Niemeyer’s understanding of water as circulation, inspiring his latest art ...

Tuberous sclerosis complex, a leading genetic cause of early-onset epilepsy, is typically resistant to drugs, requiring ...

Berkeley tied for the magazine’s closely watched No. 1 public university ranking for 2027. Three campus economics programs and the data analytics and science program were deemed the best among all U.S ...

A historian explains how the economic system that shapes every aspect of our lives came to be — and why none of it was ...

UC Berkeley researchers have found fossil evidence that animals from different latitudes of North America and South America mixed long before the Panamanian land bridge permanently linked the two ...

The reefs scattered throughout the tropics arose only after algae took up full-time residence in coral cells, supplying corals with abundant food and enabling them to build extensive shallow-water ...

Each year in the U.S., more than 300,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest, a condition where the heart’s electrical system malfunctions without warning. The medical emergency can kill both ...

For decades, Maren Hassinger didn’t consider the political impact her art might have. She created work not to influence others, but to express how she felt about our shared humanity. “The problems ...

Most of us have used the sniff test to decide whether a slightly expired bottle of milk or a week-old box of takeout is still good to eat. But while the human nose can be quite astute, it doesn’t ...

UC Berkeley graduate student Tyler Lee-Wynant grew up hearing stories about his great-great aunt, Edna Campbell Guerrero. Born in 1907 in Mendocino County, she was a native speaker of Northern Pomo, ...

California’s ranks of uninsured residents could nearly double in the next four years — to nearly 4.6 million people — because of deep federal cuts to Medicaid and dramatic changes in federal and state ...