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Mind & body

The nose knows: Electric schnoz can smell when your food’s gone bad

A new proof-of-concept device created by UC Berkeley researchers can sniff out gases emitted by harmful bacteria, allergens and other food safety hazards.

Mind & body

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

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As California warms, cases of dengue fever are expected to grow

Mind & body

Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it. - Video

New Gateway building creates dedicated campus hub for AI, computing

Scientists split gentoo penguins into four species, one totally new to science. Three of them are already threatened.

A new way to measure breast cancer risk before tumors appear

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

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

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

Lightning bolts on Jupiter pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s flashes

Astronomers capture birth of a magnetar, confirming link to some of universe’s brightest exploding stars

We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires

Urine tests confirm alcohol consumption in wild African chimps - Video

Basic research on Listeria bacteria leads to unique cancer therapy

Why are Tatooine planets rare? Blame general relativity.

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