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As the race to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease continues, UC Berkeley neurobiologist Yang Dan will join a $9 million project to study brain circuitry issues around the disease.
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Scientists at Berkeley Lab, are currently conducting research that aims to understand fire’s impact on mountain ecosystems.
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To help aid low-income communities, Common Humanity Collective, or CHC, launched its latest project to produce free DIY air purifiers.
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In 2018, the Mendocino Complex Fire burned more than 280 structures, making it California’s third-largest wildfire. Among the more than 450,000 acres scorched, the habitats of the surrounding wildlife were also destroyed in the wake of the natural disaster.
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The effects of climate change on mountain snowpacks is “potentially catastrophic” for water management, according to a study from the Berkeley Lab.
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The National Science Foundation, or NSF, awarded a $12.5 million grant to support a research partnership focused on amphibian resilience to infectious diseases.
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NASA has selected the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, or COSI, mission, led by the Space Sciences Laboratory, or SSL, at UC Berkeley, to head the development of a new telescope aimed at understanding the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Financial aid letters with simplified language and modified content can encourage high school students to complete a key step in the financial aid process, according to a study released this month from the California Policy Lab and The People Lab at UC Berkeley.
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UC Berkeley researchers co-authored a new study at the NeuroBat Lab identifying connections between social behavior and specific neural patterns.
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A study from UC Berkeley researchers suggests that transposons, previously referred to as ‘junk DNA,’ are required for the development of mice.
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