Posts by Robert Sanders

Campus news

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

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, now dominate Earth’s flora, but biologists thought they truly took off only after an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. A ‘botanical Pompeii’ containing fossilized seeds and fruits shows they prospered 10 million years earlier.

Research

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

Mind & body

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

Campus news

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

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