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

Like many students still in their teens, Isshin Shiraishi arrived at UC Berkeley in 2023 with no clear plan for his education or life after graduation. Certainly, though, he had no intention to choose ...

Note to readers: This story contains historical images of lynchings. Postcards are usually used to share memorable experiences, destinations and messages with loved ones from afar. But photographs ...

In 1821, two free Black men from the West Indies — playwright William Alexander Brown and actor James Hewlett — opened what’s considered the United States’ first Black theater in New York City. When ...

The semester was over and the morning was still, but high above the UC Berkeley campus, the prestigious University Club was buzzing with energy. Top state policymakers and community leaders, along ...

It’s easy to look back across decades to see the workings of stark racism in American political life: Mob lynchings and police killings. Poll taxes and literacy tests imposed to prevent Black people ...

Can psychedelics help our minds and brains stay healthy as we grow older? That’s the question posed by a new first-of-its-kind study launched earlier this year at the UC Berkeley Center for the ...

An artistic reconstruction of the understory of a late Cretaceous forest based on 75-million-year-old fossils from an inland environment that is now part of New Mexico. The scene depicts two ...

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

Former President Donald Trump has decisively won reelection to the White House, a political outcome that began reverberating around the globe in the hours after the polls closed Tuesday. After polling ...

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

Young voters from the millennial generation and Gen Z are emerging as the demographic center of power in American politics, but new studies by UC Berkeley researchers find they are fatalistic about ...