Each year, male newts stake out the Japanese Pool and wait for females to amble in from the surrounding garden.
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Carolyn Bertozzi wins Chemistry Nobel for work at UC Berkeley
Carolyn Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, conducted her seminal work into bioorthogonal reactions while a professor at UC Berkeley. She also served as director of a Berkeley Lab nanoscience facility.
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Physics Nobel recognizes UC Berkeley experiment on ‘spooky action at a distance’
In 1972, the late Stuart Freedman and John Clauser showed that the predictions of quantum mechanics are real. Clauser shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.
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Cal will auction NFTs of Nobel Prize-winning inventions to fund research
UC Berkeley will receive 85% of the auction price, while 15% will go to Foundation, an Ethereum platform. But the NFT will keep on giving: Cal will receive 10% of the proceeds of any subsequent sale of the NFT.
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UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Doudna, the first woman at Cal to win the Nobel, shares the prize with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing the genome editing breakthrough CRISPR-Cas9.
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UC Berkeley’s Reinhard Genzel awarded Nobel Prize in physics
Genzel, a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, shares the prize with UCLA’s Andrea Ghez for “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.”
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UC Berkeley launches trial of saliva test for COVID-19
Scientists from the Innovative Genomics Institute, the same UC Berkeley group that created a COVID-19 testing lab in March, are now trialing a quicker way to obtain patient samples: through saliva.
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‘Liquid gold’: UC Berkeley lab makes hand sanitizer for those who need it
Since March 17 a volunteer team at Cal has worked day and night to mix hundreds of gallons of hand sanitizer and distribute it to local shelters, senior centers, hospices, health centers and jails.
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UC Berkeley scientists are brewing hoppy beers… without the hops
In a double-blind taste test, Lagunitas Brewing employees said the engineered beers had big hops flavors.
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Cal prof emerita Marian Diamond, known for studies of Einstein’s brain, dies at 90
Marian Cleeves Diamond was one of the founders of modern neuroscience.
