Posts by Robert Sanders

Mind & body

In parallel mouse studies, researchers fail to replicate many reported effects of psilocybin

In a unique series of identical experiments, five labs dosed mice with the psychedelic drug psilocybin to see which behavioral effects are reproducible. The results were mixed, modest and temporary.

Campus news

Watch: Built at Berkeley, bound for space –– to measure exploded stars - Video

Milestones

Alexandre Chorin, a mathematician who revolutionized computational fluid dynamics, dies at 88

Research

How kites can harness the power of the tides

How Berkeley shaped NASA’s newest space telescope

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

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

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

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