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“Think of deep sleep almost like a life raft that keeps memory afloat, rather than memory getting dragged down by the weight of Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” one researcher said.

UC Berkeley's newest NAS members are neuroscientist Marla Feller, herpetologist Tyrone Hayes, economists Hilary Hoynes and Emmanuel Saez, chemists Jeffrey Long and T. Don Tilley and biochemist Donald Rio.

Yuria Celidwen, a UC Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute senior fellow, sheds light on how Western institutions can ethically approach the use of psychedelics.

By 2100, coastal flooding could impact hundreds of hazardous sites, many of which are located near socially vulnerable communities

A new study finds that public support and local buy-in are key to the long-term success of wildlife conservation efforts

A playwright, a philosopher, a physicist, a neuroscientist, a medical anthropologist and a political scientist have been elected to the academy this year.

The Audacious Project, an initiative housed at TED, is funding a new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield at the Innovative Genomics Institute to use CRISPR to edit microbiomes to improve our climate and health

Innovative poll finds bipartisan consensus on issues of health, government efficiency, education and environment to strengthen California by 2050

One of the first attempts to map the 3D structure of a massive elliptical galaxy finds an asymmetric shape, helping Berkeley astronomers calculate the size of the supermassive black hole in the galactic core.