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Two fossils from a group of extinct seabirds represent the largest individuals ever found. Fossils recovered from Antarctica in the 1980s represent the oldest giant…
Metal wires of carbon complete toolbox for carbon-based computers. Transistors based on carbon rather than silicon could potentially boost computers’ speed and cut their power…
Scientists analyze sunquakes to pinpoint flare energy source, perhaps predict flare severity. Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged…
Archaeologists find that unglazed ceramic cookware absorbs the chemical residue of present and past meals. If you happen to dig up an ancient ceramic cooking…
Two 14-year longitudinal studies found that selfish, combative, manipulative people are not more likely to achieve power in the workplace than are nice people. The…
UC Berkeley demographers calculate pandemic’s impact on US lifespan based on projected mortality rates. With over 170,000 COVID-19 deaths to date, and 1,000 more each…
Reading sequence of metal atoms in MOFs allows encoding of multiple chemical functions. Artificial molecules could one day form the information unit of a new…
Light can sometimes play tricks on our eyes. If you look at a shiny surface, what you see will largely depend on the surrounding environment…
As part of the federal government’s effort to speed the development of quantum computers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of California,…
Cryo-EM captures CRISPR-Cas9 base editor in action. Within a mere eight years, CRISPR-Cas9 has become the go-to genome editor for both basic research and gene…
Tetraamine-modified MOFs remove 90% of CO2 more efficiently and cheaply. big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural…
Discovery by scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley could help find silicon’s successor in race against Moore’s Law. In the search for new materials with…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…