Sending data centers into space. Building them at the bottom of the ocean. Converting California fairgrounds — and San Francisco’s Cow Palace — into massive buildings filled with servers. The ...
The academic year 2013-14 changed the direction of Wendy Ingram’s life. Over the course of a few months, four members of the UC Berkeley department in which she was a graduate student died by suicide: ...
It was the morning after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and pianist Lara Downes was catching a flight from California to Kentucky, where she was set to perform later in the evening. “It was a ...
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 ...
The 11-story UC Berkeley student housing project under construction at People’s Park will be named Judith E. Heumann House, commemorating the disability rights leader who championed accessibility and ...
The disproportionate use of police brutality against people of color in America. Higher COVID-19 death rates of Black and Latinx people in the health care system. Lower percentages of homeownership ...
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 ...
Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...
Abigail De Kosnik admits it wasn’t love at first sight when the new show Widow’s Bay appeared in her Apple TV feed. It wasn’t that the horror-comedy looked bad — in fact, it boasted an extraordinary ...
Fire touches every Californian. From the Pacific Palisades to the Sierra Nevada, entire communities have watched skies turn orange, breathed weeks of smoke, or known families forced to flee. Lenya ...
A new UC Berkeley study finds that while female human characters have made gains, nonhuman creatures have yet to catch up.
The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large ...