It’s a question that has puzzled thinkers for centuries: Are we humans alone in our pursuit of fairness and the frustration we feel when others get what we want? In recent years, evolutionary ...

The National Academy of Sciences announced its newest members this week, among them six eminent UC Berkeley faculty members, including former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen. Membership in ...

Over the past five years, medications called GLP-1s have revolutionized the treatment of metabolic disorders like obesity, diabetes and fatty liver diseases. Sold under the brand names Ozempic, Wegovy ...

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

Hollywood created the myth of spear-throwing mammoth hunters. A UC Berkeley archaeologist explains why ancestral survival ...

A new UC Berkeley study finds that while female human characters have made gains, nonhuman creatures have yet to catch up.

By focusing on cultural, familial and community strengths, Jasmin Brooks Stephens says we can support the mental health of ...

Installations and events across UC Berkeley center this Pacific island nation’s stories of nuclear devastation, rising seas ...

Jack Tseng loves bone-crunching animals — hyenas are his favorite — so when paleontologist Joseph Peterson discovered fossilized dinosaur bones that had teeth marks from a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, ...

The 11-story UC Berkeley student housing project under construction at People’s Park will be named Judith E. Heumann House, commemorating the disability rights leader who championed accessibility and ...

Agreements made by the Trump administration allow for quick deportation of migrants to foreign nations that are not their own, often in violation of U.S. law, says a report from the Human Rights ...

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.