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Mind & body

Altered States: Will doctors soon prescribe ecstasy?

A new podcast by the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, Altered States explores what science can tell us about psychedelics — and what psychedelics can tell us about ourselves.

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Education

California teachers eager for more environmental learning, but need additional support

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Research

Record-breaking heat and humidity predicted for tropics this summer

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Mind & body

Amidst misinformation, critical thinking needs a 21st century upgrade

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Oppenheimer: July 28 panel discussion focuses on the man behind the movie

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Losing track of (geologic) time at the UC Museum of Paleontology

New fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

For female astronomers, pandemic widened publishing’s gender gap

Like the Borg of Star Trek, these ‘aliens’ assimilate DNA from other microbes

La traducción automática podría poner la ciencia al alcance de todos

Traduza seu trabalho para o idioma local

A tradução automática poderia tornar a ciência em língua inglesa acessível a todos

A gépi fordítás mindenki számára hozzáférhetővé teheti a kizárólag angol nyelvű tudományt

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Machine translation could make English-only science accessible to all

A photo of a small flower with ivory-colored petals against a black background.

Berkeley scientists uncover the ‘romantic journey’ of plant reproduction

New semiconductor laser delivers power with scalability

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Six Berkeley faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences

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