The number of first-year enrolled students declaring majors in the arts and humanities is up 121 percent over last year.

Even as they achieve more power and capability on the job, middle-aged women can be held back by a perceived lack of “niceness,” new research finds.

Here’s how to quickly get up to speed about what’s at stake in the upcoming election.

The age of Yosemite Valley has been hard to pin down. UC Berkeley geologists now say it’s younger than we thought.

Fellows are selected for their exceptional talent and creativity — and the promise of even greater things to come.

Depressive realism has held sway in science and popular culture for decades, but a rosier outlook may be overdue.

This year, the winners in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry all share one important distinction: important foundational time spent at UC, a cradle of inventiveness, experimentation and learning.

Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, received her Ph.D. from Berkeley. She later became a professor in the College of Chemistry, where she conducting her seminal work.

John F. Clauser and the late Stuart Freedman carried out the first experiment to show the ‘weirdness’ of quantum physics.

A grant of more than $700,000 from the USDA will support a UC collaboration to improve and expand undergraduate education in organic agriculture, with an emphasis on supporting underrepresented students.

A promising new method for breaking down plastic would finally allow us to do something useful with hard-to-recycle waste.

A new study finds it’s most often men in subordinate roles as a way to maximize personal gain at work.