Gains by students who went through the state’s prekindergarten programs in the 2010s were still evident in third and fourth ...

Talmudic culture professor Rafael Neis explores the surprising world of ancient Jewish texts — and finds ideas about gender ...

The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large ...

Hollywood created the myth of spear-throwing mammoth hunters. A UC Berkeley archaeologist explains why ancestral survival ...

A new UC Berkeley study finds that while female human characters have made gains, nonhuman creatures have yet to catch up.

Installations and events across UC Berkeley center this Pacific island nation’s stories of nuclear devastation, rising seas and cultural endurance.

America is a nation of local laws — millions of them. From noise ordinances and construction codes to rules about fishing licenses and roadside mango peddling, every town, city and county has its own ...

More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome — all 3 billion “letters,” or base pairs, of DNA code — the meaning of much of this code remains a mystery. While an ...

For decades, California had a golden glow in the public imagination: sun-lit surf, redwoods, Hollywood, the Golden Gate Bridge. Today, however, the state is often associated with shock-and-awe housing ...

Proposition 40, the controversial measure to impose a one-time tax on California billionaires, has the support of 48% of likely voters ahead of November’s election, with 41% opposed, according to a ...

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 ...

Two mysterious human relatives left their genetic footprints in the modern human genome alongside the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans, underscoring the fact that our ancestors interbred with many ...