Scientists Tap the Genius of Babies and Youngsters to Make Computers Smarter
UC Berkeley scientists are tapping the cognitive smarts of babies, toddlers and preschoolers to program computers to think more like humans.
QB3 bioscience startups going strong at six-year mark
Incubator entrepreneurs launch 60 companies, generate 280 jobs, raise $226 million in follow-on funding
New discovery is key to understanding neutrino transformations
The joint China-U.S. Daya Bay experiment to explore the multiple personalities of neutrinos announced its first results, paving the way for further experiments on whether neutrinos and antineurtinos have similar split identities
Risks of bioenergy underestimated, new report says
The net effect on climate of large-scale biofuels deployment is highly uncertain, and could actually lead to a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new paper co-authored by UC Berkeley researchers
The First Spectroscopic Measurement of an Anti-Atom
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have played leading roles in designing and operating ALPHA, the CERN experiment that was the first to capture and hold atoms of antihydrogen, a single antiproton orbited by a single positron.
Responding to the Radiation Threat
Berkeley Lab Researchers Developing Promising Treatment for Safely Decontaminating Humans Exposed to Radioactive Actinides
Learning by getting into the heads of schoolchildren
UC Berkeley psychology professors Silvia Bunge and Stephen Hinshaw are scanning the brains of kids to learn how they learn. The findings may help educators and revolutionize classrooms.
Berkeley Lab quantifies effect of soot on snow and ice, supporting previous climate findings
A new study shows how soot darkens snow and ice, which upsets earth’s radiation balance.
Physicist Marvin Cohen wins Dickson Prize in Science
Carnegie Mellon University will award its 2011 Dickson Prize in Science to Berkeley physics professor Marvin L. Cohen, a senior scientist at the Berkeley lab and one of the most influential condensed-matter physicists in the world.
Going mental: Study highlights brain’s flexibility, gives hope for natural-feeling neuroprosthetics
Neuroscientists have shown that the same brain processes used to learn new motor skills are also necessary to master abstract skills, or controlling a robotic arm using brain activity alone.