Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory currently have access to a new supercomputer that would allow new breakthroughs in biological and environmental science. Read More…
With the magnification of global warming and a regional population explosion, UC Berkeley researchers hypothesize that a vast region of Africa will soon find itself struggling with massive food shortages and widespread violence, in a new report published Tuesday. Read More…
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will return to Stanford University after he steps down from his cabinet position. Read More…
For more than 30 years, UC Berkeley has been at the forefront of GMO research and development. Many faculty members have been divided between work to bring genetically modified products to the marketplace and attempts to challenge their dispersal in the environment. Read More…
On July 4, two experiments analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) at the border of Switzerland and France announced that they had discovered a new particle, which looks similar to the long-sought Higgs boson. Read More…
In Feb. 2007, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said, “We are poised to be an international center for the development of new environmental technologies… That opportunity grew with the award of a $500 million biofuels research center to UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab two weeks ago.” Of course you’ve Read More…
Two UC Berkeley faculty members were named to the National Academy of Engineering, a prestigious professional recognition, for their work in manufacturing and sustainability, last week. Read More…
Law enforcement officials are investigating a bomb threat at a Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory office in Emeryville. Read More…
They discovered that pressure alone can suppress the unrestrained growth of cancer cells, even if the genetic mutations that initially activated the cancer remained. Read More…
On June 7, the Daily Cal reported on the demonstrated trapping of long-lived antihydrogen atoms by the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus collaboration, which includes members of the Fajans and Wurtele research groups in the UC Physics department. As a follow-up, the graduate students of these groups would like to offer Read More…
