Was the Hurricane Katrina disaster a failure of engineering or human organizations? UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management seeks new approaches for mitigating the risks of large-scale disasters.
 

Do urban planners ask enough hard questions? A UC Berkeley working group tackles "critical urbanisms" to challenge the conventional wisdom.

How should GMOs, fracking, and other technologies be regulated? A UC Berkeley working group considers the options.

Need a lift? A new research-based app to boost emotional well-being is in development.

From search engines to medical clinics, algorithms—the code underlying computer-based decision-making—are increasingly finding their way into modern society.

A new tool developed by a team at UC Berkeley can help build “prosopographies,” social networks based on names, affiliations, and other historical data.

Think mind-reading is science fiction? Neuroscientists have made remarkable progress in decoding imagined speech from the brain.