Chronic stress is known to cause major health problems, yet acute stress is thought to improve people's performance and health. A new study by UC Berkeley professor Daniela Kaufer shows why that is. Stress generates new nerve cells in the brain that, two weeks later, help people learn better.| Berkeley News
Footprints preserved in mud in New Mexico were made by humans thousands of years before any people were thought to be in the Americas| Berkeley News
Berkeley News is UC Berkeley’s main news and information engine. Stories are posted daily by the team of writers, editors and digital media producers in the Editorial Services and Media Relations sections of the Office of Communications and Public Affairs.| Berkeley News
The Building Bridges course encourages students to think like entrepreneurs and "see that technology can be used for good.”| Berkeley News
Habeas corpus is an archaic term, but it reflects a core value of American democracy. UC Berkeley law professor Amanda Tyler says today’s fight over government power to detain people without due process could foreshadow a historic constitutional crisis.| Berkeley News
A physicist-turned-political scientist, Rochlin studied complex organizations like the military and warned of an overreliance on computer technology| Berkeley News
Half a century of allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin has recreated a lost forest ecosystem that is far more resilient to the impacts of drought, wildfire and climate change| Berkeley News
Seismic data from NASA's Insight lander indicate deep, porous rock filled with liquid water| Berkeley News
