New research from UC Berkeley suggests that sleep disruption in the elderly, mediated by structural brain changes, represents a contributing factor to age-related cognitive decline. Berkeley — The connection between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration as we grow older has been elusive. But for the first time, scientists at the University of California, [...]

New research showed that applying physical pressure to malignant breast cancer cells guided them back to a normal growth pattern. This research could lead to new treatments. Berkeley — Researchers at the UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have put the squeeze — literally — on malignant mammary cells to guide them back [...]

By developing a new fluorescent labeling strategy and employing super-resolution light microscopy, researchers at UC Berkeley were able to examine the structure of bacterial biofilms and identify genetic targets for potential drugs. Berkeley — A clever new imaging technique discovered at the University of California, Berkeley, reveals a possible plan of attack for many bacterial [...]

NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean on June 13, providing researchers with sharp images of black holes and other exotic objects by using specialized X-ray technology. Berkeley — NASA is scheduled to launch an orbiting X-ray satellite on Wednesday, June 13, that will open a new [...]

A new paper by 22 international scientists describes the need for better predictive models based on detailed understandings of how the biosphere reacted in the past to conditions like climate change and human population growth to help future scientists better decipher how the biosphere will change as the result of the continued expansion of human [...]

Engineers at UC Berkeley released their smartphone-equipped floating robots in the Sacramento River to field test their ability and to demonstrate their water monitoring technology. Equipped with mobile sensors, these robots can quickly be deployed to provide real-time, high-resolution data in hard-to-map waterways. Berkeley – A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down [...]

UC Berkeley neuroscientists are hoping to be able to hear the unsaid words of patients in the near future. While conducting their research, they were able to decode the electrical activity in the brain’s temporal lobe as a person listens to normal conversation, which in turn allowed them to predict the words the person had [...]

BERKELEY — Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail! University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers ‑ including undergraduate and graduate students ‑ studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble. They found that lizards swing their tails upward to prevent them from pitching head-over-heels into a [...]