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

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 ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project — called ...

I remember being floored by John Cho (BA ‘96, English) in Justin Lin’s 2002 indie thriller Better Luck Tomorrow, which was based on a true story near where I grew up in southern California. The film ...

From assessing a patient’s cancer risk to setting criminal sentences, AI and algorithms are increasingly used to make life-altering decisions in health care and law. But how can we ensure that these ...

For the third year in a row, UC Berkeley graduates have founded more venture-backed companies than undergraduate alumni from any other university in the world, according to the 2025 PitchBook ...

More students gained admission to UC Berkeley’s first-year and transfer classes this fall compared to the prior year — and they did so while competing with a record number of student applicants, ...

Across the span of six decades, Robert B. Reich has had two constant commitments: to social justice and to teaching. In Reich’s universe, one is not more important than the other. They are ...

Beginning this fall, UC Berkeley will guarantee two years of on-campus housing to all incoming first-year students, achieving a decade-long goal that has transformed and redeveloped multiple ...

For over a year, Mike Alvarez Cohen had been studying UC Berkeley’s rise as a leader in entrepreneurship and startups. He compiled case studies of world-changing company founders and their startups.

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 ...

Times Higher Education has named UC Berkeley the top public university in North America for 2026, and the ninth-best university in the world. And last month, the 2025 PitchBook university rankings ...