The author and neuroscientist explore how altered states challenge our understanding of the mind — and why consciousness is more than a problem to solve. Follow Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast ...
A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive; it could be how they ...
NASA’s latest triumph, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will be unique in dumping 1.4 terabytes of data onto the ...
Gašper Beguš and his colleagues created artificial baby language learners to teach AI in the same way humans learn. Rather ...
A new UC Berkeley study finds that while female human characters have made gains, nonhuman creatures have yet to catch up.
If you’ve ever watched a movie or played a video game about ancient humans, you’ve likely seen the archetype: muscular hunters hurling spears to take down charging mammoths. Decades of popular media ...
Researchers recently found that spending just 10 minutes relying on an AI tool significantly impairs the user's ability to ...
In a study published in Cell, the researchers recorded large-scale neural activity from the motor cortex of freely flying ...
When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the two winners of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in ...
UC Berkeley researchers led by Emma Pierson (EECS) and Ziad Obermeyer (Public Health) have been awarded $1.7 million through Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science. The research grant will ...
Francis Halzen, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his ...
“We consider a scenario in which world leaders want to pause if they can be confident that others are pausing or that ...