Berkeley Lab to co-lead an effort to establish a bioindustrial manufacturing capability in the region.

The advent of cheap, easy-to-use blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease has the potential to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment. But they also raise difficult questions that the field is only beginning to consider.

Seven Berkeley Lab scientists contributed to research behind report, which finds that renewable energy, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, recyclable materials, alternative fuels, and carbon capture and storage needed to slow climate change.

How inclusive research could support communities around California’s Salton Sea.

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.

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

A study of real-world disasters shows how home solar and storage could keep the lights on and the air conditioner running during many outages, if not all.

The breakthrough could divert wearable devices and other flexible electronics from the landfill.

Cities can be considerably hotter than surrounding rural regions. New materials and technologies can cool things down.

As temperatures rise, so does the risk of serious illness. Here’s how to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Hundreds of University of California scientists and researchers across the state are working to help people adapt to climate change, with innovations to fight fire, protect water supplies and accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.