The year was 1950, and the great powers of the Cold War era had begun a conflict on the Korean Peninsula that would claim as many as 5 million lives and create millions more refugees. In the U.S.

Sending data centers into space. Building them at the bottom of the ocean. Converting California fairgrounds — and San Francisco’s Cow Palace — into massive buildings filled with servers. The ...

Approximately 1.4 million Californians live in areas that are at high risk of flooding each year, and climate change is only driving this number up. But flood risk can be a tricky concept for ...

The semester was over and the morning was still, but high above the UC Berkeley campus, the prestigious University Club was buzzing with energy. Top state policymakers and community leaders, along ...

U.S. News & World Report has ranked UC Berkeley No. 7 in its 2026 list of the best global universities, which assesses more than 2,250 research institutions worldwide. Berkeley also claimed the honor ...

In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and selectively sharing food. The behavior offers a glimpse into humanity’s prosocial ...

The 136 conversations took place in roughly the same way: Pleasantries would be exchanged, a recorder started, then UC Berkeley researchers asked middle-class Californians to dig deep. Who deserves ...

When UC Berkeley professor Oliver O’Reilly and his collaborators used a novel method to understand which motions are crucial ...

Each of the four 2026 University Medal finalists has studied in the fields of science, and each has achieved remarkable academic accomplishments. But among them, a striking pattern is clear: In ...

Asked if his new book on the history of capitalism is hopeful, Trevor Jackson outright laughs. The UC Berkeley history professor has spent his career documenting the rise of the economic system that ...

The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase-contrast, which garnered a Nobel Prize in 1953, brought into clear view structures inside ...