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Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level

Research reveals that artificial sources of ultraviolet radiation cause cellular mutations that can be the seeds of future ...
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For 20 years, this UC Berkeley program has helped students who’ve been in foster care succeed

Hope Scholars started with one employee and one student. It has since grown to offer hundreds of students holistic support, ...
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Adapting Jane Austen

Lecturer Cailey Hall evokes appreciation for the author by comparing originals like “Pride and Prejudice” with modern takes.
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Undocumented students

We believe all students have the right to live and study in a safe and welcoming environment. To that end, the university has adopted principles to vigorously protect the privacy and civil rights of ...
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Five tips on how to have a civil conversation

A “civil conversation” is often misunderstood to mean keeping quiet for the sake of keeping the peace. But that’s not ...
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Three fixes for AI's bias problem

A few years ago, UC Berkeley public health scholar Ziad Obermeyer found that an algorithm that affected health care for millions of patients routinely gave wealthier, white patients better access to ...
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UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, sharing it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, ...
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Why California's beaches are shrinking, and what we can do to save them

Mike Beck has an enviable commute: an eight-mile drive along the coastal bluffs that separate the city of Santa Cruz from the ocean. In his 25 years as a professor of coastal sciences at UC Santa Cruz ...
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 3 University of California faculty

All three winners of today’s 2025 Nobel Prize in physics are faculty at the University of California. The Nobel Prize committee honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the ...
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The mystery of Easter Island revealed?

Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Their existence is a marvel ...
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Young voters have growing power, but broken politics leave them ‘fatalistic,’ studies find

Young voters from the millennial generation and Gen Z are emerging as the demographic center of power in American politics, but new studies by UC Berkeley researchers find they are fatalistic about ...
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How the University of California evaluates student applications

If you’re applying to college this fall, you may have heard the term “comprehensive review.” It’s an approach that many schools, including the University of California, use to make admissions ...