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Three Decades After UN Milestone, Experts Convene To Find AI Climate Solutions
Using the power of artificial intelligence, Berkeley researchers are developing cutting-edge machine learning technology to stem the planet’s warming and its related impacts.
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The Heat Index — How Hot It Feels — Is Rising Faster Than Temperature
Berkeley researcher points out that the way most government agencies calculate the heat index is inaccurate when dealing with the temperature and humidity extremes we're seeing today.
Water flows through a series of concrete channels that zig-zag across a dry, grassy mountainside. In the foreground, Two researchers are placing a wood-framed mesh grid into one of the channels to prevent fish from entering the experiment. Snowy mountain peaks rise up in the background.
What Artificial Streams Can Teach Us About Insects, Algae and Our Changing Climate
By the end of the century, drought may reshape California's mountain waterways and the ecosystems that depend on them.
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Wind Turbines Have Little Effect on US Property Values
Research sheds light on the dynamics between renewable energy infrastructure and local property values, providing valuable insights for sustainable and community-friendly energy development.
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Tests Begin on Sensitive Neutrino Detector for Nonproliferation As Well as Physics
The four-ton Eos experiment, built at UC Berkeley, merges two types of neutrino detectors into one.
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2024 Bakar Prize Recipients Target Skin Disease, Spintronics and Tree Bark
Five UC Berkeley faculty members have been awarded the 2024 Bakar Prize, which is designed to give a boost to campus innovators as they translate their discoveries into real-world solutions.
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As America’s Rule of Law Is Threatened, Black History Holds Lessons
Berkeley professor reveals the many ways Black Americans, long before the Civil Rights Movement, navigated the law by asserting their civil rights of property.
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Museums’ Vertebrate Collections Go Online — In 3D
A six-year project, called openVertebrate (oVert), offered researchers a glimpse of how the data might be used to ask new scientific questions and spur the development of innovative technology.
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New Center Aims To Create Healthcare Innovation Research-To-Impact Pipeline
A new Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation aims to shape the future of AI in healthcare through groundbreaking economic research, data partnerships and more.
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Seismic Station on Remote Farallon Islands Gets Critical Upgrade
Seven engineers from the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory helicoptered into the Farallon Islands on an eight-day mission to upgrade one of the lab’s most critical seismic stations.
A dot of an orange sun is visible through thick smoke generated by the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe in 2021. Researchers are studying how smoke from fires like this can cause long-term health effects.
Wildfire Smoke Disproportionately Affects California’s Indigenous Communities, New Research Shows
Using a novel series of metrics, researchers found that these communities were exposed to about 1.7 times as much wildfire smoke as would be expected based on their statewide populations.
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What Bats Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Human Speech
Researchers have identified the part of the brain in Egyptian fruit bats that controls vocalizations and found that it contains very similar neural wiring to the part of the human brain that controls speech.
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Junk DNA in Birds May Hold Key to Safe, Efficient Gene Therapy
A new technique called Precise RNA-mediated INsertion of Transgenes, or PRINT, was developed in the laboratory of Kathleen Collins, professor of molecular and cell biology.
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Nine Young Faculty Members Receive Prized Sloan Research Fellowships
The largest number of awardees from any institution may be a sign of the University of California, Berkeley's ability to attract the most promising early-career researchers.
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Deep Data — and Big Money — Are Driving a New Era in Political Advertising
TV ads shaped by social science-based testing can have a powerful impact on voter attitudes, new research finds. But that comes with challenges for U.S. democracy.
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Online Images May Be Turning Back the Clock on Gender Bias, Research Finds
UC Berkeley researchers find that online images show stronger gender biases than online texts and that bias is more psychologically potent in visual form than in writing.