Asked if his new book on the history of capitalism is hopeful, Trevor Jackson outright laughs. The UC Berkeley history professor has spent his career documenting the rise of the economic system that ...

The year was 1950, and the great powers of the Cold War era had begun a conflict on the Korean Peninsula that would claim as many as 5 million lives and create millions more refugees. In the U.S.

Talmudic culture professor Rafael Neis explores the surprising world of ancient Jewish texts — and finds ideas about gender ...

A sample of the photos used to assess the human eye’s response to natural scenes. The response of photoreceptors in the eye are helping researchers understand why our brain perceives color as a ...

The UK’s national academy of sciences, known as the Royal Society, today elected more than 90 new members from around the world, including three from UC Berkeley. “Their contributions reflect the ...

The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter — stars, galaxies and gas — in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago.

Proposition 40, the controversial measure to impose a one-time tax on California billionaires, has the support of 48% of likely voters ahead of November’s election, with 41% opposed, according to a ...

Installations and events across UC Berkeley center this Pacific island nation’s stories of nuclear devastation, rising seas ...

Hollywood created the myth of spear-throwing mammoth hunters. A UC Berkeley archaeologist explains why ancestral survival ...

A new UC Berkeley study finds that while female human characters have made gains, nonhuman creatures have yet to catch up.

Anyone who’s seen the original 1939 film The Wizard of Oz remembers the moment when Dorothy’s sepia-toned world turns to Technicolor. She steps out of her tornado-swept house into Munchkinland and ...