If you’ve ever watched a movie or played a video game about ancient humans, you’ve likely seen the archetype: muscular hunters hurling spears to take down charging mammoths. Decades of popular media ...

In a world where AI can generate research papers, solve equations or create art, educators worry about how college students may be using it, misusing it or missing out on it. Yet there have been few ...

Two mysterious human relatives left their genetic footprints in the modern human genome alongside the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans, underscoring the fact that our ancestors interbred with many ...

When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the two winners of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the UC Berkeley economics community celebrated ...

Chatbots and large language models can execute a seemingly countless number of tasks, from writing emails and reports to generating code and analyzing data. However, they still primarily act only in ...

There’s not a bad seat in the state-of-the-art 400-person auditorium. A naturally lit classroom feels more like a rustic retreat than a standard space to learn calculus. The fifth-floor conference ...

The four-foot-tall Emperor penguin of Antarctica may be the most iconic member of this unique family of birds, but 17 other species of penguins populate the Southern Hemisphere, many of them confined ...

When people think of ancient civilizations that paved the path toward modernity, the Greeks and Romans are often top of mind. But before Rome dominated the Mediterranean, another culture laid the ...

Gains by students who went through the state’s prekindergarten programs in the 2010s were still evident in third and fourth ...

Berkeley’s newest space telescope, COSI, is one of many instruments built at the Space Sciences Laboratory. By Charlotte ...

Proposition 40, the controversial measure to impose a one-time tax on California billionaires, has the support of 48% of likely voters ahead of November’s election, with 41% opposed, according to a ...

When UC Berkeley professor Oliver O’Reilly and his collaborators used a novel method to understand which motions are crucial ...