Posts by Robert Sanders

outline sketches of grains: corn, wheat and rice

Research

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

UC Berkeley study finds rapid increase over last 12,000 years in genes for enzymes that digest starch.

a bearded man wearing goggles adjust equipment inside a fume hood

Research

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

an orange slice of bread and an orange liquid in a white bowl being topped with a drop of amber liquid from a pipette

Research

Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

a ball of blue blobs with hundreds of orange hairs sticking out

Research

Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

a small white and black tube sits on pebbly red ground in the shade of the Insight lander on Mars

Rocks collected on Mars hold key to water and perhaps life on the planet. Bring them back to Earth.

the bridk-red planet Mars with white caps at poles

Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.

a lumpy gray model of proteins wrapped by blue and red DNA strands

Research gives a better understanding of what it takes to unpack DNA

glowing green elongated worms cluster together like segments of an orange

Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?

dirty white glacier ending at blue lake with deep blue sky above

Size of tropical glaciers at lowest point in at least 11,000 years

cutout headshots of four people against a blue and gold background

Four new faculty hires are a quantum leap for experimental physics

girl sitting outside holding a pencil and a clipboard

California teachers eager for more environmental learning, but need additional support

closeup of the face of a snarling dog and a cute, red-headed baby with adorable blue eyes

New study shows how the brain reacts emotionally to the real world

a silver ring surrounds a pink and blue stack of disk representing clusters of atoms

With a new, incredibly precise instrument, Berkeley researchers narrow search for dark energy

people on hillside gather around person gesturing to pinyon pines

Working with Tribal nations to preserve pinyon forests and pine nuts

side by side portraits of a woman and a man

UC Berkeley neuroscientist and nanoscientist among this year’s Kavli Prize winners

a mottled reddish blue disk

With new, sharper optics, Arizona telescope captures rare images of Jupiter’s moon Io