Posts by Robert Sanders

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Research

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

Based on studies of leaping squirrels, UC Berkeley students design a robot that can stick a landing on a branch.

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Research

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

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Research

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

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Campus & community

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

Mars depicted as a brown and blue orb

Ancient beaches testify to long-ago ocean on Mars

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During campus visit, U.S. representatives vow to fight freeze on federal research funding

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Six young faculty members named Sloan Fellows

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En busca de una rana venenosa y de un nombre culturalmente apropiado

brown frog with yellow stripe on side, sitting on a brown leaf

In pursuit of a poison frog — and a culturally appropriate name

a brown grasshopper on sand soil

Life cycles of some insects adapt well to a changing climate. Others, not so much.

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Astronomers thought they understood fast radio bursts. A recent one calls that into question.

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The Andromeda galaxy struts its stuff

A helicopter in the center frame drops water on a fire as yellowish smoke clouds the sky.

Health, housing and the path ahead: UC Berkeley researchers on the Los Angeles fires