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Berkeley Research at a Glance
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Nobel laureates
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Members of the National Academy of Sciences
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Latest Research News
June 16, 2021
Graphene ‘camera’ captures real-time electrical activity of beating heart
Bay Area scientists have captured the real-time electrical activity of a beating heart, using a sheet of graphene to record an optical image — almost like a video camera — of the faint electric fields generated by the rhythmic firing of the heart’s muscle cells.
June 16, 2021
Public health expert: ‘We need to go forward to a new type of normal’
Berkeley News spoke with Lee Riley, professor and chair of infectious diseases and vaccinology at UC Berkeley, about state reopening plans, the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines against variants, and how to address the dramatic health inequities that have been exposed by the pandemic.
June 15, 2021
The filibuster: A tool for compromise, or a weapon against democracy?
While the insurrection posed an existential threat to American democracy, Berkeley political and legal scholars say the arcane workings of the filibuster pose a threat, too, because it increasingly is being used to block majority rule. Most often, Republicans are using it to freeze movement on popular issues related to economic fairness or racial justice.
In the Media
June 4, 2021
Earth's solid-iron center is growing faster on one side than the other. And experts can't explain why. Although scientists first expected any new growth of the planet's inner core (caused by the cooling of the molten iron surrounding it) would…
June 3, 2021
A new study has found that changes in land use in Asia are inadvertently creating conditions ideally suited to the horseshoe bats that can carry coronavirus and which threaten to serve as "hotspots" for the disease's further transmission from…
June 2, 2021
A teenage Tyrannosaurus rex had a much more powerful bite than previously thought, a study has found, and was able to deliver a bone-puncturing crunch before its adult teeth even came in. At the age of 13, T.Rex was able to exert up to 5,641…