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graphic of laser induced molycarbide-graphene-induced paper
UC Berkeley engineers have fabricated foldable electronic switches and sensors directly onto paper, along with prototype generators, supercapacitors and other electronic devices.
Woman eating cake at her 100th birthday
Want to be a supercentenarian? The chances of reaching the ripe old age of 110 are within reach – if you survive the perilous 90s and make it to 105.
CRISPR-Gold gene editing
Scientists have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to lessen some autism symptoms in mice with a form of fragile X syndrome, the most common known single-gene cause of autism spectrum disorder.
fossil fingertips
When you’re caught without a comb on a windy day, you might wish for fingernails that could untangle your hair just as well. A new study suggests that our distant ancestors actually had such nails, known as grooming claws.
Image of a woman's worried face in a crowd.
New research suggests that bigger sample sets of human subjects may not necessarily be better.
DNA replication system
Scientists at the UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have invented a new way to synthesize DNA that promises to be easier and faster, does not require the use of toxic chemicals and is potentially more accurate.
3 children sitting arm-in-arm
In a region of India with a long history of tension between Hindus and Muslims, children of different faiths are showing unexpected tolerance for one another’s religious beliefs and customs.
Deer on a residential road at night.
Human disturbance is creating a more nocturnal natural world.
artist rendering of soil microbes
Soil microbes produce many types of chemicals that could be turned into antibiotics, drugs or industrial chemicals.
drinking water captured by air
UC Berkeley scientist demonstrated that their device can collect drinkable water from the air each day/night cycle.
students hold blue t-shirt with yellow lettering reading "I am the future"
New study finds that education officials in Los Angeles fail to equitably fund schools hindered by poverty, stalling efforts to close achievement gaps.
earth surface from satellite perspective, night skies
NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) is charged with the task to measure the winds of ionized atoms at the edge of space and determine how they are impacted by atmospheric weather, in particular seasonal monsoons in the tropics.
Jennifer Sowerwine and Jon Hoffman in discussion at farm setting.
The Karuk Tribe once lived on more than a million acres in remote Northern California, but their food system had been broken almost overnight, and has yet to recover. Jennifer Sowerwine believes it still can be.
Person getting blood drawn while on stationary bike during study of respiration and lactate metabolism in humans.
George Brooks, who discovered the key role lactate plays during exercise, says that it also plays a vital role in recovery from disease
Hunters Point power plant
Shuttering coal- and oil-fired power plants lowers the rate of preterm births in neighboring communities and improves fertility, according to two new University of California, Berkeley, studies.
Photo of top of Hippopotamus head above water.
Hippopotamus are a major tourist draw to African watering holes, but their bountiful poop is increasingly fouling African rivers and lakes during the dry season, killing off fish and other aquatic life. And human activity is making it worse.