Posts by Robert Sanders

Campus news

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

A geophysicist, a chemist and a computer vision expert will become fellows of the 365-year-old science academy.

Mind & body

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

Awards

Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for work on supernovae

Awards

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

Sunbirds suck, scientists find. Hummingbirds don’t. - Video

In ‘Project Hail Mary,’ Ryan Gosling encounters aliens. How likely is that?

Organ-on-a-chip can quickly test anti-aging drugs — in as little as four days

PTAB sides with Broad Institute over University of California on patent priority for use of CRISPR in eukaryotic cells

One-of-a-kind experiment tracked plant evolution in response to climate change at 30 sites worldwide

Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Birds do it, bees do it … sip alcohol, that is

Lightning bolts on Jupiter pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s flashes

Astronomers capture birth of a magnetar, confirming link to some of universe’s brightest exploding stars