Primates' neural computations shed new light on the evolution of language

A unique, systematic survey of young debris disks around 104 nearby stars turns up 25 stars with evidence of planets

Study finds 11 million children at risk of losing access to the educational and health benefits of environmental education

As the public health community races to contain the current global pandemic, researchers are working diligently to understand the novel coronavirus

"When you do something, other people see you do it, and they do it, too," says Robert Frank, an economics professor at Cornell University and author of Under the Influence

The report by Berkeley's Center for Environmental Public Policy finds an ambitious move to clean energy is do-able — and could bring broad economic, environmental benefits

A pioneer in behavioral endocrinology and passionate advocate for hyenas

“I don’t think any human endeavor has ever saved so many lives in such a short period of time,” author says

Scientists tie disrupted slumber to deadly plaque buildup known as atherosclerosis

Arash Komeili and Carly Grant are exploring whether microbes that sequester iron can be tweaked to extract other valuable metals or remove toxic metals from the environment

Study of nearly 3 million California births links proximity to active oil and gas well sites with adverse birth outcomes for rural residents

Physicists Alessandra Lanzara and Joseph Orenstein were awarded $1.6 million each to poke and probe new types of materials to see what unusual quantum phenomena pop out

Markita Landry uses nanotubes to ferry CRISPR-Cas9 molecules into plant cells to edit genes and produce better crops

Of all the exotic clouds proposed for hot Jupiters, the most common should be silicate clouds: essentially molten quartz

Berkeley professor Kate O'Neill discusses the afterlives of the things we throw away and how China's decision to stop importing paper and plastic has disrupted the global waste economy

A seven-year study of Russian River salmon reveals new tools for protecting the population in the face of climate change

The carbon-hydrogen bond makes up two-thirds of all the bonds in hydrocarbons, yet has defied chemists' attempts to open it up and add new chemical groups. John Hartwig's lab has now cracked that problem.

Preventing endangered carnivores from eating valuable livestock may require going back to Ecology 101

UC Berkeley experts said they want data sources that provide the most accurate picture in the shortest time after exposure

The COVID-19 diagnostics lab ramped up its capacity to where now it can test members of the local community, including asymptomatic first responders and homeless people exposed to the coronavirus