UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY

SETI astronomer Dr. Seth Shostak on a mysterious signal from space.

A 20-year-old male student at the University of California at Berkeley was robbed at gunpoint early this morning, campus police said.

Claudia Alexander, a brilliant, pioneering scientist who helped direct both NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter and the international Rosetta space-exploration project, has died at age 56.

Eleven auto burglaries have occurred in May on or near the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California police said.

An Oakland man is among 12 former foster youths who will be honored as “Champions of Change” next week at a ceremony at the White House.

A prominent San Francisco political consultant was arrested Thursday evening on suspicion of possession and distribution of child pornography, a police spokeswoman said Friday.

Black Lives Matter protesters confronted police in San Francisco City Hall Tuesday to protest recent police killings. Actions are planned across the Bay Area and the nation Tuesday, according to organizers.

An increased number of residential burglaries has Berkeley police advising the public to lock up and report suspicious activity.

Carnegie Mellon mistakenly sent 800 acceptance emails to applicants for its masters program in computer science — then told the applicants the acceptances were an error, and that they actually had been rejected.

Claims by critics, information from public agencies and a data analysis by the Investigative Unit show that fuel cells made by Sunnyvale-based Bloom Energy may not be performing as well as promised, sparking questions about how green Bloom’s technology really is. Vicky Nguyen reports in a story that aired on October 20, 2014.

Claims by critics, information from public agencies and a data analysis by the Investigative Unit show that fuel cells made by Sunnyvale-based Bloom Energy may not be performing as well as promised, sparking questions about how green Bloom’s technology really is. Vicky Nguyen reports in a story that aired on October 20, 2014.

Following the 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Napa, top California politicians will join scientists and government leaders from around the world to discuss plans to pay for an early warning system that gives people a heads-up before the earth rumbles and rolls. The three-day conference begins Wednesday at the University of California at Berkeley.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and other East Bay leaders Thursday called on the state Assembly to pass legislation that would require smartphones to come equipped with an anti-theft deterrent known as a “kill switch.”