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UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.

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UC Newsroom |

UC wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record

These discoveries span decades and disciplines, but they all have one important thing in common: They’ve all relied on competitive funding from the federal government.

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UCLA |

UCLA scientists explain principles behind the superpowers of Ant-Man and the Wasp

The characters’ extraordinary abilities are pure science fiction. Or are they?
Left-handed child at blackboard
UC Santa Barbara |

What being left-handed says about culture

The number of left-handed people in a society can help explain its norms, new study finds.
Two people walking through high corn
UC Davis |

Can we grow one of the world's largest food crops without fertilizer?

We could be one step closer with the discovery of a new variety of corn.
UC Irvine medical center patient and provider
UC Newsroom |

UC hospitals recognized as nation, state's best

High praise for the five UC medical centers in a new U.S. News survey.
UC Riverside |

Fake News Can’t Fool New Algorithm

An algorithm that can already detect fake news stories with 75 percent accuracy gets a boost from Snap Research.
UCLA |

Relax, mom. You still matter.

A new study has a reassuring message for parents of college-age children: You’re probably underestimating their loyalty to you.
UC Irvine |

Smartphones act as digital security blankets in stressful social situations

When people are in awkward social situations, their phones offer comfort and relieve feelings of isolation — without even turning them on.
Cynthia Marshall, as a U C Berkeley cheerleader in the late 1980s
UC Berkeley |

Always a maverick: Alum Cynthia Marshall, NBA’s first African American female CEO

Marshall was the first African American cheerleader at UC Berkeley and the first in her family to graduate from college.
UCLA |

Neurosurgeon’s accurate diagnosis restored teen’s vision

After two years of living in darkness and pain, Rhianna Wilson's future looks bright
UC Newsroom |

Celebrating the 2018 Oakland Promise Scholars

UC President Janet Napolitano has awarded college scholarships to five UC-bound Oakland students.
Solar probe
UC Berkeley |

Space probe to plunge into fiery corona of the sun

Carrying instruments built by Berkeley scientists, NASA plans to launch Earth’s first spacecraft to venture inside the orbits of Venus and Mercury to touch the very edge of the sun’s fiery corona.
UC Riverside |

Information overload has been around since the 1800s

There are striking similarities between 19th and 21st century mass media consumption habits and their effects on society.