When Pliny the Younger recorded his first-hand experience of the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago — a cataclysm that ...
“Berkeley Law Voices Carry,” hosted by Gwyneth Shaw, is a podcast about how the school’s faculty, students, and staff are ...
By mutating genes in these so-called organoids, Bateup and her Berkeley team have now discovered a source of seizures in children with one of the most common forms of early-onset epilepsy — and have ...
Charred papyrus scrolls from a library inundated by volcanic ash in 79 C.E. are largely unreadable. UC Berkeley scientists ...
On the surface, the arid expanses of the Mojave Desert may seem inhospitable and largely removed from the global carbon cycle. But beneath the surface, its mineral-rich soils are running a carbon ...
As often happens in science, the discovery of VIPR started with an observation that didn’t make sense.
The historian discusses how New World exploration led to a “Price Revolution” and the global use of silver currency and concludes his narrative in 1933, when capitalism prevailed in spite of the ...
Rather than trying to halt technological progress altogether, Bell urged people to maintain and invest in forms of connection and creativity that resist automation’s pull. After all, the value of art ...
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” His previous book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, was named one of the ten ...
Stuart Russell is the Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering and a professor in the Division of Computer Science, EECS. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial ...
David Card conducts empirical research on a wide range of topics, including immigration, unemployment, gender and race differences, and inequality. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and ...
David Bamman is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where he works in the areas of natural language processing and cultural analytics, applying NLP and machine learning ...