From ghost stories to climate entrepreneurship, 9 fascinating new classes at UC Berkeley
This week, UC Berkeley students will settle into lecture halls and around seminar tables for their first classes…
Your perfect GBO leader based on your major | Quizzes
With school starting soon, Golden Bear Orientation is right around the corner. This is a special time for…
Amid trend in health optimization, Berkeley scientists focus on optimizing the brain
“Health optimization” and “body hacking” is all the rage as people strap on wearable technology, undergo blood tests…
High school students become summer scientists at USD
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A group of local high school students have ditched the lazy summer days and…
North and South America weren’t always connected, but their mammals still found a way to intermingle
Until the Panamanian isthmus formed about 2.8 million years ago, North and South America were isolated continents with…
Scientists discover how algae colonized corals — a symbiosis that fueled the growth of the world’s reefs
The reefs scattered throughout the tropics arose only after algae took up full-time residence in coral cells, supplying…
A breakthrough in electron microscopy delivers sharper images of our body’s tiniest proteins
Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase-contrast, which garnered a…
Sunbirds suck, scientists find. Hummingbirds don’t.
While we often think of hummingbirds as sucking nectar from flowers, they’re not sucking the way we suction…
Birds do it, bees do it … sip alcohol, that is
As bees and hummingbirds flit from flower to flower, greedily sipping nectar in exchange for pollination, the animals…
Urine tests confirm alcohol consumption in wild African chimps
Aleksey Maro knows far more than he cares to know about the urination habits of chimpanzees. But if…
California schools can stop truancy without arresting parents | Guest Commentary | Commentary
Gov. Gavin Newsom and I don’t have much in common politically. He’s the Democratic governor of California; I…
Comparison is the thief of joy | Words We Live By
It’s a Sunday afternoon: farmers markets, churches, families with strollers and brunch. Exhausted from endless assignments, projects, meetings…