Science & Tech

Illustrated portraits Illustrations by Patrick Welsh

Spotlight: Genius Bears

By Hussain Khan, M.J. ’25

Meet Berkeley’s recent MacArthur Fellows

Illustration of a smartphone surrounded by labeled plants and animals Illustration by Beatriz Ortiz

I, Naturalist

By Nathalia Alcantara

How a Berkeley-born app has led to one of the largest biodiversity datasets on Earth

Rockem Sockem Alamy

May the Best Bot Win

By Nathalia Alcantara

Started as a student side project, Chatbot Arena is now the AI industry’s scoreboard—and a $100 million startup

Ambi Stack Courtesy of Ambi Robotics

The Edge Episode 28: Robots with Jeff Mahler

What's easy for humans is hard for robots, and vice versa. The co-founder of Ambi Robotics talks to us about the current state of embodied AI and how soon—if ever—we might see a full robot revolution.

Gollner observes a flame vortex inside in a laboratory Photo by Matthew Howard Ehrichs, University of Maryland

Q&A: Is Berkeley Next?

By Jesse Klein

Wildfire scientist Michael Gollner on protecting the East Bay from disaster