Similar Thinking Patterns Shown in Native Amazonians, Americans and Monkeys
The neural computations of human and non-human primates shed new light on the evolution of language. Humans and monkeys may not speak the same lingo,…
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Read the latest research and science news out of the University of California, Berkeley, including breakthroughs in biology, physics, outer space, and technology, right here on SciTechDaily.com. Founded in 1868, UC Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California that often simply goes by Cal, especially for athletics. The university has a close relationship with three DOE National Laboratories: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Exoplanet Nurseries Revealed in Rogue’s Gallery of Dusty Star Systems
Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planets. Astronomers this month released the largest collection of sharp, detailed…
Dark Matter Could Be Hiding in Existing Data From Current Detectors
Current experiments’ detectors and data analysis efforts could be refocused to seek out newly suggested types of dark matter signals that may have been overlooked….
On Mars or Earth, Biohybrid Can Turn CO2 Into Useful New Organic Products
Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocks. If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to…
Scientists Creating a Robotic COVID-19 Testing Lab at UC Berkeley
As doctors around the country scramble to diagnose cases of COVID-19, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) are creating from…
In Earth’s Greatest Extinction, Land Animals Began Dying Off Long Before Marine Life
New dates for fossils indicate land animal turnover extended for hundreds of thousands of years. The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period…
Dark Matter Decay Ruled Out as Source of Mysterious Electromagnetic Signals Detected From Nearby Galaxies
Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don’t know what, exactly, it is. A new study from the University of…
Programmable DNA Technique ‘Prints’ Cells to Create Diverse Biological Environments
Researchers harness photolithography and programmable DNA to rapidly construct arrays of cells and proteins that mimic living conditions. Like humans, cells can be easily influenced…
Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Breakthrough Listen Releases 2 Petabytes of Data From SETI Survey
Analysis of a portion of the data looks at nearby stars that could see Earth transiting sun. On Friday (February 14, 2020), the Breakthrough Listen…
Why Are Bat Viruses So Deadly? Answers to the Question Raised by Coronavirus Outbreak
Bats’ fierce immune systems drive viruses to higher virulence, making them deadlier in humans. It’s no coincidence that some of the worst viral disease outbreaks…
How Ancient Poop Debunked Myth of Native American Lost Civilization
New study debunks myth of Cahokia’s Native American lost civilization: ancient poop levels point to repopulation of iconic pre-Columbian metropolis. A University of California, Berkeley,…
Fundamental Property of Halide Perovskites May Open Up a Whole New World of Applications
Study shows all halide perovskites inherently unstable, requiring great attention to environment. University of California, Berkeley, scientists have created a blue light-emitting diode (LED) from…
Scientists Have Mapped 13 Key Emotions Evoked by Music
Music really is a universal language, according to a new study of how people in the U.S. and China respond to different genres of sounds….
Invisible Quantum Weirdness Enables Heat Energy to Travel Through Complete Vacuum
Heat Energy Leaps Through Empty Space, Thanks to Quantum Fluctuations If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know…
Illuminating Seafloor Seismology With Existing ‘Dark’ Fiber-Optic Cables and Distributed Acoustic Sensing
A new fault system on the seafloor was discovered off California’s coast by temporarily transforming a pre-existing underwater fiber optic cable into an array of…
Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables Make Superb Seismic Network
Test under Monterey Bay shows undersea fiber-optic cables can detect quakes, fault systems. Fiber-optic cables that constitute a global undersea telecommunications network could one day…
Scientists Shocking Discovery That Babies in the Womb May See Much More Than We Thought
Light-sensitive cells in immature retina are networked, suggesting bigger role in developing brain. By the second trimester, long before a baby’s eyes can see images,…
Light-Beam Performance at the Advanced Light Source Synchrotron Enhanced by Machine Learning
Successful demonstration of algorithm by Berkeley Lab-University of California Berkeley, team shows technique could be viable for scientific light sources around the globe. Synchrotron light…