Science & environment

Book it! Schedule a flash from the Golden Gate Bridge’s ‘Solar Beacon’

June 21, 2012

Q&A: Alison Gopnik on babies and learning

June 20, 2012

Lois Swirsky Gold, expert on toxins and carcinogens, dies at 70

June 13, 2012

Hindcasting helps scientists improve forecasts for life on Earth

June 12, 2012

How Walter Alvarez’s collaboration with Microsoft led to ChronoZoom

June 12, 2012

Sleep loss leads to anxiety, poor food choices

June 12, 2012

Analysis of global fire risk shows big, fast changes ahead

June 12, 2012

Distinguished rural sociologist of 2012: Louise Fortmann

June 11, 2012

Let it burn: Prescribed fires pose little danger to forest ecology, study says

June 11, 2012

Theorem unifies superfluids and other weird materials

June 8, 2012

X-ray telescope to focus on hottest regions of black holes, supernovas

June 8, 2012

A worldwide first: Berkeley steps up to the plastic-waste challenge

June 7, 2012

Kammen to lead Fulbright scholars in addressing climate adaptation

June 7, 2012

Black dot on the sun’s a bright spot for campus stargazers

June 6, 2012

Stealth behavior allows cockroaches to seemingly vanish

June 6, 2012

Scientists uncover evidence of impending tipping point for Earth

June 6, 2012