Posts by Robert Sanders

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Awards

Ken Ribet awarded math prize for influential proof

The Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society honors work that has had a lasting impact.

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Mind & body

A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans

Campus news

Massive astronomical dataset could accelerate AI discoveries about the cosmos

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Research

Magnetic tornado is stirring up the haze at Jupiter’s poles

a planet against a blue background is exploded in layered hemispheres resembling clouds, an ocean, an amber layer and a core

A clue to what lies beneath the bland surfaces of Uranus and Neptune

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A nearby supernova could end the search for dark matter

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Watch a UC Berkeley neurologist explain how concussions really work

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Breakthrough in capturing ‘hot’ CO2 from industrial exhaust

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Capturing carbon from the air just got easier

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Using AI and iNaturalist, scientists build one of the highest resolution maps yet of California plants

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Bruce Ames, developer of a simple, widely used test to detect carcinogens, is dead at 95

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David Baker, a UC Berkeley Ph.D., awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?

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This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now

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Physicist Paul Richards, a pioneer in studies of the cosmic microwave background, dies at 90

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A Q&A with the new dean of biological sciences, Richard Harland