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Research by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, suggests that climate change could shift East Asian monsoon rains — which more than a billion people rely on for their water needs — toward the equator, possibly impacting resource management and people’s daily lives.
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Berkeley Lab researchers studied mummy bones and Egyptian soil to gain a deeper understanding of the daily life of Egyptians thousands of years ago.
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The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, or CITRIS, and the Banatao Institute have launched a series of technological and policy innovations to protect refugees and immigrants.
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Previously, there was no quick and accurate way to test blood supplies for prion-related diseases, which include neurodegenerative conditions caused by misfolded proteins or prions. Now there is, however, according to a study published Sept. 12 involving Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers.
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UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers found that 85% of the HVAC systems in California classrooms lack sufficient ventilation.
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A new machine-learning algorithm is being developed to predict traffic flow and traffic patterns on California highways.
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The Perlmutter supercomputer, named after Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist and UC Berkeley physics professor Saul Perlmutter, is designed to support data analysis, machine learning and large-scale simulations.
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Using X-rays produced at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, an international team of researchers developed a material to separate sulfur dioxide from other gases.
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UC Berkeley researchers have found that lack of sleep predicts increases in anxiety levels up to 30%, while sufficient levels of sleep reduce stress.
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An instrument attached to the top of a telescope in Arizona, primarily operated and constructed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has aimed its 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” at the night sky to aid researchers’ observations of the galaxies.
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