A man with glasses in a brown jacket smiles at the camera in a lab (Omar Yaghi)

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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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cat eyes
UC Berkeley |

Hunter or prey? The eyes are the key

Pupil shape — horizontal, vertical or circular — is linked to animals’ place in the ecological web.
Janet Napolitano
UC Newsroom |

President Napolitano to interview Salk biographer

Commonwealth Club event Aug. 19 features Napolitano in conversation with Dr. Charlotte Jacobs, author of "Jonas Salk: A Life."
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UC Santa Cruz |

Precision medicine initiative funds UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project

State initiative provides $1.2 million for the Genomics Institute's California Kids Cancer Comparison project.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography |

Climate change causes timing shifts in fish reproduction

Warmer ocean temperatures affect seasonal cycles, study finds.
UC San Diego students
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego participates in Coursera Global Skills Initiative

Qualcomm Institute and San Diego Supercomputer Center online courses have goal to advance access to job-relevant skills around the world.
Alice Waters (left) tours the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley with UC President Janet Napolitano at the launch of the UC Global Food Initiative.
UC Santa Cruz |

Q&A with Alice Waters

Chez Panisse chef and owner, a UC Berkeley alumna, will receive the Foundation Medal at UC Santa Cruz's Founders Celebration Fiat Fifty dinner on Sept. 26.
Aerial view of grand canyon
Greater Good Science Center |

How awe makes us generous

A new study from UC Berkeley and UC Irvine finds that feeling small in nature makes us more generous to other humans.
Bumblebee
UC Riverside |

Flowers can endanger bees

Study by UC Riverside entomologist and colleagues shows flowers serve as parasite-dispersing hubs.
stealing money
UCLA |

Moral judgments soften with time, distance, study shows

People judge acts like lying, theft and assault to be wrong — but less wrong if those acts happened far away or long ago, UCLA-led research suggests.
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UCLA |

UCLA moves to establish independent Herb Alpert School of Music

If approved, it would be first stand-alone music school in the UC system.
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UCLA |

How to convince vaccine skeptics, and how not to

UCLA and University of Illinois psychologists find a way to change minds.
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UC Irvine |

Summer romance: Will it last?

UC Irvine researchers apply scientific method to study of how we receive affectionate messages.