After 17 lengthy recording sessions and more than a decade of review and revision, Davis and the Oral History Center at ...

In June 2023, UC Berkeley leadership received a proposal to unname the campus’s esteemed Bancroft Library, one of the largest special collections libraries in the United States. Citing the racist and ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals and a group of modern humans with offspring (red, bottom row) showing recent Neanderthal ancestry, imagined as a cave art painting. DNA ...

Most of us have used the sniff test to decide whether a slightly expired bottle of milk or a week-old box of takeout is still good to eat. But while the human nose can be quite astute, it doesn’t ...

An Austrian electoral victory by a party with Nazi roots. The “anti-terrorist” prosecution of an Indian writer for decade-old criticisms of the Hindu nationalist governing party. MAGA. Reading global ...

Asked if his new book on the history of capitalism is hopeful, Trevor Jackson outright laughs. The UC Berkeley history professor has spent his career documenting the rise of the economic system that ...

This week, seven UC Berkeley faculty — representing academic fields from philosophy to molecular biology to engineering — were named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy, ...

Millions of people took to the streets last weekend in solidarity against President Donald Trump. Protest signs and public speeches decried his administration’s attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ people and ...

Each year in the U.S., more than 300,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest, a condition where the heart’s electrical system malfunctions without warning. The medical emergency can kill both ...

Break-bone fever. The nickname alone attests to the pain that dengue fever can cause. Though about half the people who get the virus are asymptomatic, for the rest, an infection can be excruciating, ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar — a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star — and confirmed that it’s the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in ...

Historical accounts of the eruption nearly 2,000 years ago provide a precise timeline that allowed recalibration of one of ...