Research & Innovation

Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap across perilous gaps and execute pinpoint landings on the flimsiest of branches.

University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers are...

Seven UC Berkeley faculty members from a broad range of fields are among the 2024 class of fellows elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals.

The 471 new AAAS fellows...

It is widely believed that receptive listening, or demonstrating openness to someone’s point of view, is key to political persuasion.

But a new study co-led by UC Berkeley Political Science Professor David Broockman suggests that signalling receptiveness during a persuasive conversation may not be as important as previously thought.

The study, titled “Listen for a change? A longitudinal field experiment on listening’s potential to enhance persuasion,” was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...

In Dec. 2024, Prof. Alex Filippenko was interviewed by Dr. Brian Greene for the World Science Festival. They discussed the accelerating expansion of the Universe, dark energy, and especially the current "Hubble tension" -- the discrepancy between the measured and predicted current expansion rate. The episode (2 hours long) is now available at https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/...