Science & environment

A lone wolf walks through yellow grassland

Opinion

What we really need in the fight against extinction

In a new Op-Ed, UC Berkeley wildlife biologist Justin Brashares argues that “de-extinction efforts” like the resurrection of the dire wolf pull attention away from one of the gravest crises facing the planet.

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Campus & community

Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

An illustration showing purple, rod-shaped bacteria against a swirling blue background.

Mind & body

UC Berkeley research reveals the not-so-secret life of gut bacteria

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Mind & body

Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

A farmer stands in a corn field and inspects a stalk of corn.

New tool helps protect corn farmers and insurers from future climate extremes

Artificial leaf uses sunlight to capture carbon and produce valuable chemicals

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

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A spate of suicides drew this alumna back to UC Berkeley to confront mental health issues in academia

A new electric train at the Caltrain San Francisco station.

Electric trains are quieter, more reliable than diesel. New study finds they’re healthier, too.

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On Jupiter, it’s mushballs all the way down

A cassowary egg sits on cotton batting in a box. A professor is holding the box while someone touches the egg's shell with their fingers to feel the shell's texture. The egg is a shade of green that helps to camouflage it.

Got eggs? This UC Berkeley museum has tens of thousands.

a fluffy blue sphere of gas with 3 small galaxies at the center, set against a black background

Half of the universe’s hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been found

A woman on a gray background with an inset image of an armored cable going into the ocean.

Watch a professor explain the internet’s series of subsea tubes in 101 seconds

Two steelhead trout swim within the bubbling waters of a flowing stream.

A single dry winter decimated California’s salmon and trout populations

A male patient arrives at the therapy clinic complaining of low back pain. The therapist examines the patient's physical pain in examination room photo.

To understand low back pain, researchers are looking closely at how our bodies move

Alex Filippenko and Pat Joseph talk onstage

The Edge: Life, the universe and everything with Berkeley astrophysicist Alex Filippenko

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