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 ...

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 ...

Charred papyrus scrolls from a library inundated by volcanic ash in 79 C.E. are largely unreadable. UC Berkeley scientists ...

In healthy older study participants, PET scans revealed the protein tau building up over time in their frontal cortices. This ...

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law has released a novel human rights assessment of the use of large language models (LLMs) in the fields of law, journalism, and education.

UC Berkeley researchers have created a new genomic language model, called GPN-Star, that excels at spotting genetic variants that impact human health. More than two decades after scientists first ...

According to Ceferino, preliminary findings showed that people’s responses were not linear. “The risk perception at some point increases dramatically because things are falling and the shaking is so ...

To top it off, climate change is intensifying California’s already dramatic dry and wet cycles. After surviving more than a decade of severe drought, the state is now bracing for the impact of this ...

Since its discovery in 1980, the hexagonal polar jet stream that surrounds Saturn’s north pole has perplexed scientists. The symmetrical six-sided polygonal wave has been duplicated in laboratory ...

“The Work in Progress” takes viewers on a tour of the American spirit at a time of deep division. Guided by UC Berkeley emeritus scholar Robert Reich, the documentary finds tension and doubt ...

Russel admits that it can be frustrating to ring alarm bells and feel no one is listening. He has tried many approaches, including producing Slaughterbots, a 2017 short film that depicted the dangers ...