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Sunbirds suck, scientists find. Hummingbirds don’t. - Video

Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid from flowers. The tongue suctioning employed by sunbirds is unique among vertebrates.

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In ‘Project Hail Mary,’ Ryan Gosling encounters aliens. How likely is that?

Awards

UC Berkeley Professor Matei Zaharia awarded ACM Prize in Computing

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This UC Berkeley alum is giving plastic a second life

Berkeley Talks: The erosion of shared reality in the age of deepfakes - Audio

Go back in time with these five vintage Berkeley maps

Music department seeks to expand private lessons amid surging student demand

What does ‘late-stage capitalism’ really mean? UC Berkeley professor chronicles an ‘apocalyptic’ history

High cost of living suppresses California population growth, UC Berkeley study finds

Watch: Democracy policy goes beyond the ballot box, Berkeley dean says - Video

One-of-a-kind experiment tracked plant evolution in response to climate change at 30 sites worldwide

Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Birds do it, bees do it … sip alcohol, that is

From designated hitters to robot umpires, how baseball has — and hasn’t — changed over its 200-year history

Harnessing real-world data to bring life-saving drugs to the public sooner

From Sproul Plaza to 924 Gilman: How the East Bay helped define punk’s radical legacy

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