UC Berkeley sophomore Niki Peters won second place, and $50,000, in the final round of Jeopardy! College Championship, which aired today on ABC.

UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner, an expert on the science of emotions, has been appointed to Twitter's new "Trust & Safety Council," an advisory panel tasked with helping to combat hate speech and abuse on the 10-year-old microblogging site.

Long before dating sites, a pair of UC economists — one from Berkeley, the other from UCLA — delved into the question of matchmaking, and hit upon a formula with applications far beyond romance.

MyShake Android app crowdsources ground shaking from smartphone accelerometers

Peidong Yang and his group at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab have made tunable nanowire lasers using the latest chemical techniques

Charles Phan, an award-winning chef and a former Berkeley student, plans to bring his culinary trademark -- organic international food -- to campus in time for the fall semester.

Donald L. Foley, 99, brought a social science perspective and methodology to the emerging field of city planning.

It’s called Lioness. It’s a sleek, sophisticated vibrator that works kind of like a running app on your smartphone, but instead of mapping the distance and terrain of a route, it records a woman's sexual arousal states.

A medical anthropologist widely known for her work on the global trade in human organs, Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes has been a lifelong Catholic and frequent critic of the church. She talks about Pope Francis, clerical sexual abuse and the Oscar-nominated film Spotlight, in this Q&A.

Neuroscience pioneers at Berkeley-Haas explore the minds of Raiders fans.

Deformed wing virus spread by global movement of European bee colonies

Mardi Gras is celebrated throughout the U.S. Gulf Coast. Berkeley archaeologist Laurie Wilkie has studied these festivities and written about the beads and other objects that come with the big party (and what they suggest about Fat Tuesday's ancient predecessors).

Niki Peters, the UC Berkeley sophomore competing in the Jeopardy! College Championship, won her quarterfinal round Friday night and advances to the semifinals. The popular TV game show airs on KGO-TV (ABC) tonight at 7

It turns out women entrepreneurs have an edge of men when it comes to crowdfunding, new research shows.

Poverty and lack of paid sick days are two of the biggest problems facing restaurant workers, says Saru Jayaraman, director of UC Berkeley’s Food Labor Research Center. In her book “Forked,” just out, she ranks eateries based on how they treat staff.

Election considered among highest honors for an American engineer

Roaches are even creepier when you see them squeezing through tiny cracks. But Berkeley biologists find this ability inspiration for search-and-rescue robots

With a blare of brass and a flash of pink and gold, all 220 members of the band marched onto the field Sunday to join halftime headliners Coldplay.