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Coches manejan a través de esmog en un autopista de California

Mind & body

California ha mejorado la calidad del aire, pero persisten las desigualdades raciales/étnicas

Las políticas estrictas del estado contra las emisiones han reducido la exposición a la contaminación atmosférica por partículas finas menos de 2,5 micrómetros (PM2,5 por sus siglas en inglés) en un 65% desde el 2000. Sin embargo, las comunidades étnicas con bajos ingresos siguen respirando el aire más contaminado.

Cars drive through smoggy air on a California highway

Mind & body

California has dramatically improved its air quality, but racial disparities persist

outline sketches of grains: corn, wheat and rice

Research

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

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

Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

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

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.

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

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

A close-up photo of a plant with a small white flower.

Can engineered plants help make baby formula as nutritious as breast milk?

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

outlines in red of a woman's torso and four circles containing a thermometer, a face with a rash, a painful knee and a woman sleeping

Tracking down the genetic causes of lupus to personalize treatment

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