SETI Homes In On Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 121102
Recent observations of a mysterious and distant object that emits intermittent bursts of radio waves so bright that they’re visible across the universe provide new…
Recent observations of a mysterious and distant object that emits intermittent bursts of radio waves so bright that they’re visible across the universe provide new…
A team of engineers has developed a new approach to ultrafast light pulses that could be used for rapid light-based communications systems. Two-dimensional materials called…
Using a radio survey of a giant molecular cloud filled with recently formed stars and a mathematical model that can explain the observations, astronomers…
Researchers believe that a planet located at an unusually large distance from its star – 16 times farther than Pluto is from the sun –…
Data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has helped confirm that three supernovae exploded in the dark emptiness of intergalactic space, having been flung from their…
A newly published study from UC Berkeley reveals a new pathway through which Alzheimer’s disease may cause memory decline later in life. University of California,…
A newly published study details how a team of researchers returned drug-resistant bacteria to a pre-resistant state. Biologist Miriam Barlow of the University of California,…
Using partially entangled atoms, a new experiment by UC Berkeley physicists demonstrated more precisely than ever before that space looks the same in all directions….
Earth’s magnetic field is decreasing 10 times faster than normal, leading some geophysicists to predict a magnetic reversal to occur within a few thousand years….
A new report from UCLA and UC Berkeley shows that used electric car batteries could help California achieve its renewable energy, greenhouse gas reduction, and…
A newly published study reveals that seven tiny grains of dust captured by NASA’s Stardust Spacecraft probably came from outside our solar system, perhaps created…
Using the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, researchers perform large-scale supercomputing simulations of massive stars forming from the collapse of giant,…
Based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler data, astronomers now estimate that one in five stars like our Sun have planets about the…
In a newly published study, researchers tested the effects of reducing ether lipids on human skin cancer cells and primary breast tumors, finding that inactivating…
A new theory from researchers at UC Berkeley explains how “zombie vortices” help lead to the birth of a new star. Reporting in the journal…
A UC Berkeley has linked sleep deprivation to junk food cravings, finding that high-level brain regions required for complex judgments and decisions become blunted by…
A newly published study from Princeton University and UC Berkeley reveals that slight increases in temperature and precipitation result in increased human conflict. Should climate…
In an effort to bring high-end photovoltaics to the masses, UC Berkeley scientists have developed an inexpensive way to grow indium phosphide, a III-V compound…