The plume of steam from UC Berkeley's natural gas-fired power plant is a familiar sight on the skyline of San Francisco's East Bay. But the facility's days are numbered: The campus is on track to ...

Mike Beck has an enviable commute: an eight-mile drive along the coastal bluffs that separate the city of Santa Cruz from the ocean. In his 25 years as a professor of coastal sciences at UC Santa Cruz ...

Alzheimer’s disease is one of humanity’s most formidable foes. It affects 10 percent of people over age 65 and kills more people each year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. Its effects ...

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more research, been cited more often by other scientists, earned more patents, and ...

A few years ago, UC Berkeley public health scholar Ziad Obermeyer found that an algorithm that affected health care for millions of patients routinely gave wealthier, white patients better access to ...

If you’re applying to college this fall, you may have heard the term “comprehensive review.” It’s an approach that many schools, including the University of California, use to make admissions ...

In the past several years, California has endured the most extreme fires in its recorded history. 2018’s Camp Fire grew into the state’s deadliest and most destructive fire on record, devastating the ...

Even if you’ve never set foot inside a physics classroom, you probably have a pretty solid grasp of the laws governing how objects move and behave. Throw a basketball against a wall and it bounces off ...

In the past year, UC researchers have boldly gone where most of us would never go, not even if you paid us. They peered into the depths of the universe and plumbed the mysteries of the human body, ...

Cancer takes a staggering toll on American lives and families: Nearly 40 percent of people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lives, and almost 1 in 5 Americans will ...

Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Their existence is a marvel ...

Among the many challenges with a Mars voyage, one of the most pressing is: How can you get enough fuel for the spacecraft to fly back to Earth? Houlin Xin, an assistant professor in physics and ...