Posts by Robert Sanders

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Campus & community

Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

A professor at Arizona State University, she leads NASA's Psyche mission, the first to explore a metallic asteroid.

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Mind & body

Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

Research

Artificial leaf uses sunlight to capture carbon and produce valuable chemicals

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Research

A spate of suicides drew this alumna back to UC Berkeley to confront mental health issues in academia

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On Jupiter, it’s mushballs all the way down

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Half of the universe’s hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been found

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Seven faculty members named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Scientists discover why obesity takes away the pleasure of eating

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No robot can match a squirrel’s ability to leap from limb to limb — until now

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Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji

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Chemists create new molecular compound from Berkeley’s eponymous element, Berkelium

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Researchers and students gather in Sproul Plaza to ‘Stand up for Science’

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Federal research cuts could worsen infectious disease toll worldwide, Berkeley expert warns

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How cuts to NIH funding could impact cancer patients

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This shy California shrew avoided the camera and the limelight — until now

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Ancient beaches testify to long-ago ocean on Mars