A lifelike rendering of the newly-described early primate species Purgatorius mckeeveri (foreground). Shortly after the extinction of the dinosaurs, the earliest known archaic primates, including this new species, quickly set themselves apart from their competition — such as the archaic ungulate mammal on the forest floor — by specializing on an omnivorous diet that included fruit found in the trees. Illustration: Andrey Atuchin- Co-authors Gregory Wilson Mantilla (left) and the late William Clemens search for Purgatorius fossils in the Hell Creek area of northeastern Montana. Image: courtesy of Lauren DeBey
- A house burns as the Camp Fire in 2018 tears through Paradise. Roughly 95 percent of the Northern California town’s structures were lost. Image: Getty Images
- The area to the left of the bright center of this artistic rendition of the Milky Way Galaxy is the region around Earth — 3,000 light years in radius — in which UC Berkeley astronomers discovered more than 1 million binary stars. Image: Kareem El-Badry/UC Berkeley and Jackie Faherity/ AMNH
- A colorful collage of binary star pairs near Earth. Image: courtesy of the Gaia survey.
- A new Berkeley IGS Poll found broad support among Californians for proposals to provide workplace and income protections for farmworkers, even those in the state without documentation. Image: David Goldman/Associated Press
- UC San Diego music and computer science professor Shlomo Dubnov. Image: UC San Diego
- Example of graphical sound ‘fingerprints’ indicating a COVID-19-related dry cough. Image: UC San Diego
