Posts by Robert Sanders

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Mind & body

Watch a UC Berkeley neurologist explain how concussions really work

'Your brain is not designed to be hit. It's as simple as that.'

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Research

Breakthrough in capturing ‘hot’ CO2 from industrial exhaust

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Research

Capturing carbon from the air just got easier

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Research

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

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Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

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New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

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Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

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Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

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Rocks collected on Mars hold key to water and perhaps life on the planet. Bring them back to Earth.

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Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.