For centuries, gossip has been dismissed as salacious, idle chatter that can damage reputations and erode trust.

Restored wetlands like this pond converted from agricultural use in Aragon, Spain, may look natural, but a new study shows that it can take hundreds of years for restored wetlands to accumulate the plant assemblages and carbon resources of a natural, undamaged wetland.

ATTENTION: Reporters covering Asia politics, international affairs and national security - WHAT:   "North Korean Crossroads: International Reaction to the Succession of Kim Jong-un," a discussion by a panel of experts at the University of California, Berkeley.

Howard A. Bern, professor emeritus of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a pioneer in understanding how hormones affect development, including that of the human fetus, died Jan.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news2/2011/12/dengue.flv As part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) 2010 Holiday Lectures on Science, UC Berkeley's Eva Harris talked about her work with scientists and clinicians in Nicaragua on dengue over the past two decades.

David Woo, who began his career in 1967 as an architect working on the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley, has chosen to honor his late father, Woo Hon Fai - and to celebrate the now-historic structure  - with a major gift to the campus.

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library, the latest addition to the city's burgeoning downtown arts and culture district, is opening to the public on Sunday, Jan.

ATTENTION: Reporters covering art, culture and higher education - WHAT: The University of California, Berkeley's public opening of the new home of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life.

An African Agama lizard swings its tail upward to prevent pitching forward after a slip during take-off.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau issued the following statement on the passing of his dear and trusted friend: - Berkeley - The University of California, Berkeley, mourns the loss of F. Warren Hellman, a visionary leader and philanthropist and alumnus of the Class of 1955.

A simulated view of the gas cloud (red orbit) now approaching the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.