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After removing 117 invasive red-eared slider turtles from the UC Davis Arboretum, researchers found that the turtle species competed with the endangered native western pond turtles for several resources, including food. These findings were published Aug. 15 in PeerJ.
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According to a recent paper submitted by an international team of scientists including some from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, current estimates regarding the rainforest’s carbon uptake are not entirely comprehensive.
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A team of scientists from UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and the University of Washington won a five-year $1 million dollar grant last month from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to develop CloudBank, a program that will simplify public cloud access for researchers and educators.
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Whether reading a book or listening to an audiobook, UC Berkeley neuroscience researchers have discovered that the human brain is similarly stimulated by both literary experiences.
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Maha Siddiqui has started developing a nonprofit organization to encourage more students in San Joaquin County to pursue a pre-med career path.
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Distinguished heavy-element chemist Polly Arnold has been appointed as director of the Chemical Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Halla, co-founded by UC Berkeley alumnus Henry Michaelson and his colleagues from USC and UCLA, aggregates data to personalize online grocery shopping, an industry that is expected to grow dramatically in the coming years.
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The study defined a preterm birth as a birth before 37 weeks of gestation and used preterm births as an indicator of maternal wellness for Latina women who were pregnant during the 2016 election.
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The researchers’ study strives to uncover how a new type of chemical solute, ionic liquids, can transform the forward osmosis process of desalination.
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By the end of the summer, the UC system expects to receive five more patents, raising its portfolio to 15 total patents related to CRISPR technology.
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