From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy
A new technology created by UC Berkeley engineers uses the “coffee-ring effect,” paired with plasmonics and AI, for rapid diagnostics.
Wildfire season is here. UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepare.
UC Berkeley Professor Michael Gollner and his students are applying advanced wildfire simulation tools to help neighborhoods understand their specific…
Inspired by nature, this engineering professor’s designs fold, move and morph
From self-folding chairs to self-planting seeds, UC Berkeley’s Morphing Matter Lab is transforming what’s possible in engineering design with their…
IE Sci-Tech and UC Berkeley ME Department Partner to Advance Digital-Twin Simulation for Financial Systems
The IE School of Science & Technology (IE Sci-Tech) and the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of California, Berkeley,…
When Student Athletes are Also Engineers
As artificial intelligence, autonomous cars, intelligent robots, and space exploration dominate social media, science and engineering are now in style.…
No robot can match a squirrel’s ability to leap from limb to limb — until now
Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a…
‘An extra special place’: UC Berkeley alumni start a new chapter of their love story with the sweetest marriage proposal in Morrison Library
As a student at UC Berkeley, Helen Kirkby was no stranger to the libraries. Kirkby, who studied political science and…
A. Carlos Fernandez-Pello, 2024 Recipient of the Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal
In this second installment of a series of articles recognizing the combustion scientists who were honored with medals and awards…
UC Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot
The bumblebee-inspired robot, less than a centimeter in diameter, can hover, change directions and even hit small targets.
New assistive device enhances grasping for people with spinal cord injuries
More than 15 million people worldwide are living with spinal cord injury (SCI), which can affect their sensory and motor…