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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

You’re hurrying out of the grocery story to drive home and start cooking dinner. As the doors close behind you, you step into the parking lot and head… where? Where, among the rows of gleaming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...