Research & Ideas

Researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford have released a health study showing that exposure to chemicals and toxic compounds has led to decreased acceleration of epigenetic aging in young boys. 

New campus research reveals that Republicans and Democrats vastly overestimate the other parties’ willingness to compromise the upholding of democratic norms, according to Alia Braley, a campus PhD candidate in the political science department and author of the study.

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory captured the previously missed oxygen-producing step of photosynthesis in a recent study published in Nature.

Researchers from UC Berkeley, UCLA and Climate Central, in collaboration with the Toxic Tides Project, published a study that discovered rising sea levels along California’s coast are placing marginalized communities at risk of flooding by contaminated water.

The technology and methods developed in a 1970s environmental psychology experiment conducted at the UC Berkeley Environmental Simulation Lab has imparted profound effects on both urban design and filmmaking.

“A workforce that reflects the diversity of our society” is what Berkeley’s Dean of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Tsu-Jae King Liu and 12 other female pioneers and leaders in engineering and academia outlined in plans to reinvent the American semiconductor industry. 

The sugar-sweetened beverage, or SSB, tax, implemented in Oakland in 2017, significantly reduced the number of purchases of soda and sugary drinks, according to a study published Tuesday in PLOS Medicine.

Co-founder of artificial intelligence, or AI, tech company OpenAI and research scientist John Schulman spoke at the campus EECS colloquium Wednesday regarding the future of ChatGPT and its AI counterparts. 

The California 100 initiative recently released results of its California Considers Deliberative Poll, revealing unexpected political accord, hope and curiosity for the future of California. 

Out of thousands of nominees, Berkeley Lab’s new website has made it to the Top 5 finalists eligible to win the Webby Award, the “Oscars of the Internet.”