Allende, author of the novel The House of the Spirits,, talks about living through the 1973 military coup in Chile, fleeing to Venezuela as a refugee and how writing helped her begin to heal

A hot new optoelectronic material called halide perovskite is highly efficient and easy to make, but inherently unstable. Is this a problem or an advantage?

Surviving family members often are victimized a second time by ineffective investigations and harsh treatment by Oakland police, says a new Berkeley Law study

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Who gets counted, and why, can shed light on which communities will be represented in the political process

Christina Maslach is recognized for pioneering measures of wellbeing in the workplace

Cal coaches stress importance for students to prepare for a life after sports

UC Berkeley's Oral History Center and KQED teamed up to record the longest interview Brown has ever done — one that offers a first-person account of his nearly five decades in California politics

"Prison has been a miserable failure," says Paul Butler, a law professor at Georgetown University. Instead, he advocates abolishing prison and finding alternative ways to deal with those who cause harm

Combining electron and super-resolution microscopy, scientists show how proteins relate to cells’ fine structure

When it came to enrolling female students, UC Berkeley refused to wait

Berkeley neurologist Robert Knight took a step back from his research to design and market a helmet that can slide relative to the head to absorb the force of glancing blows that can damage the brain

Doudna shares the prize with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for their invention of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

"When we take medicine, we are really seeking an internal look to see what is the matter," says author Françoise Bourzat. "The mushroom helps you see the truth."

For first-year journalism student Clara Mokri, ‘human stories are what drives the news’

Oscar Dubón, vice chancellor for equity & inclusion; Lisa García Bedolla, vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the graduate division; Catherine P. Koshland, vice chancellor for undergraduate education and Stephen C. Sutton, Ed.D.,

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The molecular channels size astride synthetic membranes, and could be used to enhance water desalination, energy storage or biofuels research

Music really is a universal language, according to study of how people in the U.S. and China respond to different genres of sounds.

Neuroimaging of youngsters at risk for psychiatric and attention disorders paves way for early interventions.