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Zhiling Zheng holding a MOF-powered water harvester in the desert
UC Berkeley experts taught ChatGPT how to quickly create datasets on difficult-to-aggregate research about certain materials that can be used to fight climate change.
Professor Michael W. Zuerch standing in his lab
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Zuerch has received a prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award for his research entitled "Ultrafast mechanisms of chirality control in electronic materials".
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$2.2M Grant to UC Berkeley Will Help Drive Google.org’s $20M+ Investment in Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics.
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The Molecular Therapeutics field focuses on innovative approaches to treat diseases, and the division hopes to accelerate the drug discovery process from idea to laboratory to clinic.
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The Othering & Belonging Institute hosts panel to mark release of their research brief, “Climate Refugees: Facts and Findings, and Strategies for 'Loss and Damage'".
blue, red and yellow map of Ganymede and red and purple map of Io
In two separate publications, astronomers report the first detection of hydrogen peroxide on Ganymede and sulfurous fumes on Io, both the result of Jupiter’s domineering influence.
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Partially due due to the administration’s decision not to include racial demographics in a new tool that will be used to evaluate proposed regulations or policies.
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Researchers have developed Nerfstudio, a Python framework that provides plug-and-play components for implementing NeRF-based methods.
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New study shows that deforestation, land-use changes, and climate-induced stresses have continually reduced the land sink’s capacity to assimilate carbon.
Generative AI illustration of A beautiful pensive young woman in yellow clothes with red hair wearing a set of futuristic sunglasses on yellow background with mirrors
Berkeley Haas Professor Sameer Srivastava and co-authors have developed a deep learning model that can identify where and when prescient ideas first emerge.
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New study reports on research on a region of the brain where visual images are retained even when we lack conscious awareness of having seen the information.
A camera trap photo shows a coyote walking across a burnt landscape.
New study analyzed more that 500,000 camera grid images taken at the HREC in the years before and after the Mendocino Complex Fire to understand how the blaze impacted small- and medium-sized mammals on the property.
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A new technique checks for evidence that radio signals received through SETI searches have passed through interstellar space, eliminating the possibility that the signal is mere radio interference from Earth.
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Starting a writing group to guide policy and public opinion in support of Ukraine, launching a platform for humanitarian aid, and a site that acts as a living memorial and repository of testimony about the war.
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The poll is an important milestone for the BCSP’s public education program and for establishing longitudinal analysis of public opinion about psychedelics over time.
Hand holding a sign that reads "Racism is Taught"
A new paper describes the school's journey over a two-year period to establish an Antiracist Pedagogy Faculty Leadership Academy, a series of antiracism trainings for staff and non-faculty academics, and an elective course on antiracism for students.