A UC Berkeley graduate who started his career working on the hydrogen bomb, Gilbert’s conscience led him to leave defense work and focus on pure science.
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$241M life sciences campus takes shape in West Berkeley
Renovations to three buildings on Fifth Street mark the start of a developer’s ambitious plans for a 3-acre project that could host nearly 600 workers.
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‘Botanical Entanglements’ opens Saturday at UC Botanical Garden
Berkeley artist Juniper Harrower explores our complicated history with flora in the new ecological art exhibition.
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Remembering Gerald Abrams, physicist who helped discover the J/psi subatomic particle
At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, Abrams worked with the distinguished physicists George Trilling and Gerson Goldhaber.
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New bioresearch hub is sculpted from UC Berkeley’s brutalist former art museum
The Bakar BioEnginuity Hub will open in February 2022 in the bunker-like concrete building on Bancroft Way, once home to the Berkeley Art Museum.
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Grayson Street proposal could add to West Berkeley’s life sciences boom
The project is planned for the site of Berkeley’s Grayson Street homeless shelter. City officials have long known the site was only temporary.
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New worry for parents: Study by Berkeley science institute finds toxic substances in preschool carpets
The director of Step One Preschool replaced rugs after a study by the Green Science Policy Institute found worrisome chemicals in the carpets of that school and 17 others.
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A Berkeley High grad, now a professor of astronomy, discovers a new planet
The new planet, “DS Tuc Ab,” circles a bright young star outside our solar system.
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Fireball’s ‘spectacular’ effect Wednesday was rare, says NASA expert
The meteor that left a stunning visual in the sky landed about 50 miles out from Half Moon Bay, an astronomer says.
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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.
Posted inNature, Schools
Berkeley Lab scientists set sail to unlock climate data
What’s life like aboard a scientific research vessel plying the California coast deploying robots to unlock important data about climate change?
Posted inNature
BioBlitz logs biodiversity on UC Berkeley campus
A crowd of intrepid young scientists brushed off Saturday morning rain to participate in the Berkeley BioBlitz. The BioBlitz was designed to be an intensive study of biodiversity on the UC Berkeley campus, and was one of over two dozen BioBlitz events held around California to celebrate the National Park centennial. Photographer Kelly Sullivan put on […]