As fall semester begins, thousands of new UC Berkeley students gather for a warm campus welcome

In a first, scientists reveal an unexpected carbon cycle occurring in the Mojave Desert. The post Desert soils pull in carbon dioxide at night, Berkeley researchers find appeared first on Berkeley News.

Tuberous sclerosis complex, a leading genetic cause of early-onset epilepsy, is typically resistant to drugs, requiring surgical removal of brain lesions. A new study pinpoints a cause and potential new therapies. The post How tiny balls…

Berkeley tied for the magazine’s closely watched No. 1 public university ranking for 2027. Three campus economics programs and the data analytics and science program were deemed the best among all U.S. universities. The post UC Berkeley…

A historian explains how the economic system that shapes every aspect of our lives came to be — and why none of it was inevitable. The post Watch: the history of capitalism in 101 seconds appeared first on Berkeley News.

At a UC Berkeley event in August, the comedian and filmmaker questioned who is shaping artificial intelligence — and to what end. The post Berkeley Talks: W. Kamau Bell on AI, creativity and resisting the pull of automation appeared first…

Charred papyrus scrolls from a library inundated by volcanic ash in 79 C.E. are largely unreadable. UC Berkeley scientists teamed up to create and burn their own scrolls to test a new way to decipher them. The post To read 2,000-year-old…

Forbes has once again ranked UC Berkeley No. 1 among public universities in its annual list of America’s Top Colleges, continuing several years of No. 1 placements in the publication’s annual list.  Berkeley came in at No. 9 overall…

As tau builds up in our brains, non-REM brain waves necessary for memory formation become erratic. The post New UC Berkeley study links deep-sleep loss to Alzheimer’s-related protein buildup appeared first on Berkeley News.