Posts by Robert Sanders

Mind & body

Amid trend in health optimization, Berkeley scientists focus on optimizing the brain

What’s a healthy body without a healthy brain? Neurologists, neuroscientists and psychologists unite to find metrics for brain health and effective training to improve it.

Research

North and South America weren’t always connected, but their mammals still found a way to intermingle

Mind & body

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from ‘ghost’ ancestors

Research

Scientists discover how algae colonized corals — a symbiosis that fueled the growth of the world’s reefs

UC Berkeley quantum computing chip to be buried in national time capsule celebrating America’s 250th birthday

New fossils upend catastrophist narrative that flowering plants flourished only after dinosaur extinction

Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats

A breakthrough in electron microscopy delivers sharper images of our body’s tiniest proteins

New CRISPR technique selectively shreds cancer cells, providing a new avenue for treating malignancies

Three UC Berkeley faculty members elected to UK’s Royal Society

Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it. - Video

Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for work on supernovae

Two UC Berkeley scholars elected to the American Philosophical Society

Scientists split gentoo penguins into four species, one totally new to science. Three of them are already threatened.

National Academy of Sciences elects six Berkeley researchers to its ranks

Two UC Berkeley faculty members win New Horizons prizes for math and physics

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