Key TakeawaysJohn Clarke, a former scientist at Berkeley Lab, shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering quantum tunneling in an electric ...

After a nearly half-century run, one longtime Bay Area business is getting ready to hang up its hat for good. The owner of Berkeley Hat Company, Carol Lipnick, announced late last week that her ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Three UC Berkeley-led research projects — totaling more than $8.8 million in funding — have been cut by the Department of Energy, or DOE, since the start of the government shutdown. The DOE announced ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The University of California was founded 157 years ago as California's first public university, and UC Berkeley quickly became its crown jewel. According to the latest U.S. News ...

Just this year, three new shops have opened within a block of campus. Berkeley even has its own annual boba celebration. But this oversaturation of boba is starting to water down business for everyone ...

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. Export ...

A large, open-air Cedric Grolet pâtisserie operation might seem like an interesting choice to anchor a hotel lobby, but perhaps not if you know a bit about the Berkeley’s history. Three-hundred years ...