Funding for construction of the first building at the joint UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) satellite campus in Richmond has faced setbacks due to federal budget cuts known as sequestration. Read More…
Recent findings from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reveal one of the causes of why some breast cancer patients relapse years after treatment. Read More…
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…
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…
Stuart Jay Freedman, a world-renowned nuclear physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a UC Berkeley professor, died Nov. 9 while at a scientific conference in New Mexico. He was 68.
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