As often happens in science, the discovery of VIPR started with an observation that didn’t make sense.

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 ...

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 ...

Research team uses innovative new methodology to see and explain how electrons change from a solid to liquid state in the presence of defects. The experimental image on the left is a scanning ...

Ashok Ajoy is an associate professor in the Chemistry Department. His research interests include: Physical Chemistry — nanoscale NMR spectroscopy, targetable spin hyperpolarization agents, methods for ...

Marié Abe is a scholar of music and sound with ongoing ethnographic commitments in Japan, Okinawa, Ethiopia, and the US. Broadly speaking, her research explores the political and affective affordances ...

Sergey Levine received a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2009, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2014. He joined the faculty of the Department of ...

Sai Balakrishnan is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, in a joint appointment with DCRP and GMS (Global Metropolitan Studies). Her research and teaching broadly pivot around global ...

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 ...