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.
It may be possible to develop superconductors that operate at room temperature with further knowledge of the relationship between spin liquids and superconductivity, which would…
Researchers discovered which mutations of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 virus make it more efficient at infecting cells and evading antibodies by using virus-like particles. As the…
Observations of faint, planet-size star help weigh its millisecond pulsar companion. A dense, collapsed star has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its…
Much of star’s mass in 2019 tidal disruption ended up in symmetrical cloud that hid black hole. In 2019, astronomers observed the closest example to…
Choline helps the body use an essential nutrient during a baby’s development The nutrient choline has already been proven to have long-term advantages for children…
Gravitational microlensing turns up black hole candidate, one of 200 million in the galaxy. When massive stars come to the end of their lives and…
Machine learning algorithm points to problems in mathematical theory for interpreting microlenses. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained on real astronomical observations now surpass astronomers in…
Salamanders that live their entire lives in the crowns of the world’s tallest trees, California’s coast redwoods, have evolved a behavior well-adapted to the dangers…
The manufacturing technique enables faster production, greater optical quality, and design flexibility. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a new way to…
Photovoltaics may be more practical for long stays on Mars thanks to today’s light, flexible solar panels. According to new research by scientists at the…
A new material created by University of California, Berkeley, researchers could reduce the energy required to control advanced silicon transistors. Computers may be growing smaller…
Monkeys routinely consume fruit containing alcohol, shedding light on our own taste for booze. For 25 years, UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley has been intrigued…
T. rex’s short arms may have lowered risk of bites during feeding frenzies. Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called…
Repetitive DNA sequences around centromere show history of human genetic variation. Scientists lied a little when they revealed the entire sequencing of the human genome…
Test of drug could prove role of hyperactive retinal cells in blindness, potentially leading to better therapies. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have…
Many of today’s marine invertebrates, including sponges and jellyfish, have chromosomes with the same ancient structure they inherited from their primitive ancestors more than 600…
Excess X-ray emissions from remnant four years after merger hint at bounce from delayed collapse. When two neutron stars spiral into one another and merge…
Using adaptive mesh refinement, supercomputer simulation narrows axion mass range. Physicists searching — unsuccessfully — for today’s most favored candidate for dark matter, the axion,…
