Posts Tagged ‘University of California at Berkeley’
Earth & Environment - Apr 28, 2010 12:00 - 1 Comment
Extinction by acidic ocean: past or present?
STANFORD (US)—New evidence uncovered by analyzing calcium embedded in Chinese limestone suggests that volcanoes, which spewed massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for a million years, caused the biggest mass extinction on Earth. (more…)
Society & Culture - Apr 12, 2010 11:39 - 12 Comments
Deportation hurts young U.S. citizens
UC BERKELEY / UC DAVIS (US)—The United States government deported the lawful immigrant parents of nearly 88,000 citizen children between 1997 and 2007, most for relatively minor crimes, according to a recent report. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 10, 2010 17:08 - 0 Comments
Einstein validated on cosmic scale
PRINCETON / UC BERKELEY (US)—An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies demonstrates that the universe—at least up to a distance of 3.5 billion light years from Earth—plays by the rules set out 95 years ago by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 22, 2010 11:16 - 0 Comments
Upside-down answer for deep Earth mystery
RICE (US)—When Earth was young, it exhaled the atmosphere. Now, a team of scientists is offering a new answer to a longstanding mystery: What caused Earth to hold its last breath? (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 17, 2010 15:21 - 0 Comments
Outfitting ‘power suits’ with nanogenerators
UC BERKELEY (US)—Engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles to charge electronic devices. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 15, 2010 13:55 - 3 Comments
Highway pollution drives up heart risk
USC (US)—Exposure to air pollution accelerates the thickening of artery walls that leads to cardiovascular disease, reports a new study—the first to link outdoor air quality and progression of atherosclerosis in humans. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 3, 2010 1:17 - 0 Comments
Cancer-seeking nanoprobes pack a punch
UC BERKELEY (US)—Newly created nanoprobes may one day be used in the battle against cancer to selectively seek out and destroy tumor cells, as well as report back on the mission’s status. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 29, 2010 11:47 - 4 Comments
‘We’ factor: The language of love
BERKELEY (US)—In marriage, using “we-ness” language helps couples resolve conflicts better than those who don’t, new research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 23, 2009 13:29 - 2 Comments
Soy peptide fights inflammation, leukemia
U. ILLINOIS (US)—Lunasin, a soy peptide often discarded in the waste streams of soy-processing plants, may have important health benefits that include fighting leukemia and blocking the inflammation that accompanies such chronic health conditions as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 18, 2009 18:27 - 0 Comments
Fog found on Titan
CALTECH (US)—Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 18, 2009 18:08 - 12 Comments
About face with new recognition software
U. ILLINOIS (US)—An engineering team has developed a face recognition system that is remarkably accurate in realistic situations. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 17, 2009 15:57 - 2 Comments
Real-time action in a virtual world
U. ILLINOIS (US)—A new digital system allows people in different locations to interact in real time in a shared virtual space. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 9, 2009 10:43 - 0 Comments
Nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery
STANFORD (US)—Dip an ordinary piece of paper into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires, and it turns into a battery or supercapacitor. Crumple the piece of paper, and it still works. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 23, 2009 17:58 - 5 Comments
Rising temps likely to flare African conflict
UC BERKELEY/STANFORD/NYU (US)—Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by more than 50 percent within the next two decades. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 19, 2009 11:59 - 5 Comments
Are we hardwired for empathy?
UC BERKELEY (US)—Researchers have found compelling evidence that people who are more empathetic possess a particular variation of the oxytocin receptor gene. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 3, 2009 0:01 - 0 Comments
Cell phones as tools for global development
U. WASHINGTON (US)—Computer scientists have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 29, 2009 14:54 - 4 Comments
Researchers recreate attack-ant chemical
UC BERKELEY (US)—A research team has synthesized chemical molecules that trigger normally friendly ants to turn on each other and attack, a finding that may lead to new tactics for controlling the spread of invasive ant species. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 23, 2009 15:33 - 2 Comments
‘Fixable’ error undercuts climate laws
PRINCETON (US)—A group of scientists has issued a report identifying a critical—but correctable—accounting error affecting climate legislation that could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. (more…)
