Posts by Robert Sanders

Research

Decagon wave emerges near Saturn’s south pole

Space Sciences Lab researcher Michael Wong, a leader of a 10-year NASA program to monitor our solar system’s outer planets, has discovered an unusual new feature on Saturn: a 10-sided wave encircling the south pole.

Mind & body

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

Research

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

Mind & body

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

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

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

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

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