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…
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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.
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…
Revealing the Intimate Lives of MASSIVE Galaxies
Every galaxy has a story, and every galaxy has been many others in the past (unlike for humans, this is not purely metaphorical, as galaxies…
Red-Eared Slider Invaders Are Hurting California’s Native Turtles
In the summer of 2011, visitors to the University of California, Davis, Arboretum may have witnessed an unusual site: small teams of students wielding large…
Wearable Sensors Detect What’s in Your Sweat
Needle pricks not your thing? A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is developing wearable skin sensors that can detect what’s in…
Stellar Flyby Helped Shape Our Solar System 3 Million Years Ago
Some of the peculiar aspects of our solar system — an enveloping cloud of comets, dwarf planets in weird orbits and, if it truly exists,…
Researchers Use Gelatin to Make Powerful New Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst
A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, can generate hydrogen fuel from water just as efficiently as…