Posts by Robert Sanders

Research

How Berkeley shaped NASA’s newest space telescope

The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large group of scientists who hope to reap the benefits.

Science & environment

Watch: How UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory leads NASA missions like ESCAPADE - Video

Research

Berkeley helped make IceCube a success — and earn its leader the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Research

The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth’s history

How tiny balls of human brain tissue are revealing the causes of childhood epilepsy — and possible treatments

The ancient ancestor of CRISPR is a unique and potentially powerful genomic tool

To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own

Decagon wave emerges near Saturn’s south pole

Nature’s color palette explains why everything we see is a mix of red, yellow, green and blue

Clues to longevity may reside in the genomes of long-lived bats

Amid trend in health optimization, Berkeley scientists focus on optimizing the brain

North and South America weren’t always connected, but their mammals still found a way to intermingle

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from ‘ghost’ ancestors

Scientists discover how algae colonized corals — a symbiosis that fueled the growth of the world’s reefs

UC Berkeley quantum computing chip to be buried in national time capsule celebrating America’s 250th birthday

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

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