A man with glasses in a brown jacket smiles at the camera in a lab (Omar Yaghi)

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UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.

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UC Newsroom |

UC wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record

These discoveries span decades and disciplines, but they all have one important thing in common: They’ve all relied on competitive funding from the federal government.

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UC Riverside |

Flowers can endanger bees

Study by UC Riverside entomologist and colleagues shows flowers serve as parasite-dispersing hubs.
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UCLA |

Moral judgments soften with time, distance, study shows

People judge acts like lying, theft and assault to be wrong — but less wrong if those acts happened far away or long ago, UCLA-led research suggests.
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UCLA |

UCLA moves to establish independent Herb Alpert School of Music

If approved, it would be first stand-alone music school in the UC system.
vaccination
UCLA |

How to convince vaccine skeptics, and how not to

UCLA and University of Illinois psychologists find a way to change minds.
beach romance
UC Irvine |

Summer romance: Will it last?

UC Irvine researchers apply scientific method to study of how we receive affectionate messages.
UC San Francisco |

California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine announces funding for 2 projects

Use of big data to identify cancer treatments and a DNA sequencing test to diagnose hospital infections are the first projects of UCSF, UC Health initiative.
Pacific Research Platform
Calit2 |

Researchers building high-speed data freeway system

UC San Diego and UC Berkeley team to create Pacific Research Platform, which will transfer of scientific data 1,000 times faster than today's Internet.
Game of Thrones
UC Berkeley |

Game of Thrones, a class unto itself

UC Berkeley summer session course explores what show may be saying about democracy, climate change and corruption of the American Dream.
Lower lake levels due to drought
UC Riverside |

UC campuses part of urban water research network

UC Riverside and UC Berkeley among 14 universities receiving a $12 million National Science Foundation grant to address water challenges around the world.
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Berkeley Wellness Center |

Are mobile devices ruining our eyes?

A UC Berkeley optometrist warns about the effects of laptop computers, tablets, cell phones on our vision.
earthquake warning system
UC Berkeley |

Earthquake early warning system moves closer to reality

U.S. Geological Survey awards $4 million grant to UC Berkeley and its research partners to ramp up ShakeAlert prototype.
Participating on a Zocalo panel to discuss the social and economic forces limiting low-income Americans' access to healthy food and exercise were Anna Gorman (from eft), UCLA's Roshan Bastani, Tracie McMillan and LaVonna Lewis.
UCLA/Zocalo |

Who can afford organic kale on minimum wage?

A panel of health experts discusses what can be done to ensure health equity.