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Berkeley researchers have developed a more accurate way to predict semiconductor band gaps, improving our understanding ...
05/27/2026

Berkeley researchers have developed a more accurate way to predict semiconductor band gaps, improving our understanding of how temperature affects electronic and optical materials.

A computational framework captures the influence of many-body effects on semiconductor band gaps.

Congratulations to Benjamin Safdi, one of two UC Berkeley faculty members to receive the 2026 David Blackwell Award, rec...
05/26/2026

Congratulations to Benjamin Safdi, one of two UC Berkeley faculty members to receive the 2026 David Blackwell Award, recognizing exceptional scholarship, teaching, and service in the College of Letters & Science.

UC Berkeley's College of Letters

At Berkeley, advanced microscopes are generating petabytes of biological data to help train groundbreaking AI tools for ...
05/22/2026

At Berkeley, advanced microscopes are generating petabytes of biological data to help train groundbreaking AI tools for living systems. The new MOSAIC imaging platform lets scientists capture life in unprecedented detail — from single molecules to developing embryos.

At UC Berkeley, high-resolution microscopes are generating images of cells and embryos day and night, collecting massive amounts of data to train an AI model for living biological systems.

By clarifying the differences among various types of exploding stars, Alex Filippenko enabled them to be used to measure...
05/20/2026

By clarifying the differences among various types of exploding stars, Alex Filippenko enabled them to be used to measure the expansion of the universe.

By clarifying the differences among various types of exploding stars, Filippenko enabled them to be used to measure the expansion of the universe.

Reminder: Wednesday, May 6: Basic Science Lights the Way presents Astronomy's Newest Discovery Machine: The Vera Rubin O...
05/04/2026

Reminder: Wednesday, May 6: Basic Science Lights the Way presents Astronomy's Newest Discovery Machine: The Vera Rubin Observatory.

Join us as four Berkeley astronomers share how they are using the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile - which contains the largest camera ever built an...

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