Like many students still in their teens, Isshin Shiraishi arrived at UC Berkeley in 2023 with no clear plan for his education or life after graduation. Certainly, though, he had no intention to choose ...

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 ...

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 ...

UC Berkeley remains a powerhouse for prestigious graduate programs, with multiple disciplines earning top marks in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. The 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings ...

“Health optimization” and “body hacking” is all the rage as people strap on wearable technology, undergo blood tests to monitor health biomarkers and commit to extreme exercise, supplements, diets and ...

An artistic reconstruction of the understory of a late Cretaceous forest based on 75-million-year-old fossils from an inland environment that is now part of New Mexico. The scene depicts two ...

Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...

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 ...

UC Berkeley biologists and engineers teamed up to discover how squirrels are able to land and balance on a narrow branch, and then apply what they learned to the design of a robot, Salto, that can ...

Berkeley’s world-class economics department is celebrating the Nobels won today by two scholars: Robert E. Hall, a 1964 graduate and early-career faculty member, and Michael Woodford, a visiting ...

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 ...

• Nearly 73% of California adolescents with treated self-harm injuries between 2005-2021 were girls. • There’s been an approximately 75% increase in reports of multiracial teens treated for self-harm ...