Research & Ideas

The federal Office of Carbon Scoring, or OCS, is in its earliest stage of construction, aided by UC Berkeley professors and other contributors.

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a technique that advanced the study of antibiotic resistant microbes.

A study from the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics by Michael Reich and Jesse Wursten found that minimum wage increases do not lead to disemployment in small businesses.

For over 90 years, UC Berkeley's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, has been committed to researching various areas of science.

Campus professors shared their perspectives on the U.S. Supreme Court and the potential risk factors it proposes for American democracy, according to a recent campus news article. 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have discovered a new type of conductive plastic material that could increase the efficiency of electric vehicles, according to a Berkeley Lab press release Tuesday.

A study from UC Berkeley's School of Public Health found that few California pharmacists are prescribing HIV medications without an ordered prescription, even though California law allows them to do so.

Researchers from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health found a correlation between childhood exposure to glyphosate, the most commonly used herbicide, and liver inflammation and metabolic disorder in early adulthood, which could lead to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and liver cancer in later life.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, leader of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, project, collaborated with researchers to produce a documentary titled “5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI.”

A Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, or IGS, poll released Friday found that President Joe Biden’s approval ratings in California are at 57%, the highest they’ve been since summer 2021, according to Mark DiCamillo, the director of the Berkeley IGS Poll.