Brain boot camp: How to branch out and expand your knowledge!
Maya Valluru/Staff
With summer fast approaching, the next couple of months are the perfect opportunity for you to branch out and expand your knowledge!
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UC Berkeley researchers team up with NASA to analyze Apollo mission moon samples
A team of UC Berkeley researchers was chosen as one of nine teams to analyze untouched moon samples collected during the last Apollo missions nearly 50 years ago, NASA announced in a press release Monday.
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7 UC Berkeley assistant professors nominated as 2019 Sloan Research Fellows
This year’s recipients — Courtney Dressing, Shirshendu Ganguly, Moritz Hardt, Sergey Levine, Priya Moorjani, Philipp Strack and Gabriel Zucman — are among 126 scholars from 57 universities in the United States and Canada. The recipients will receive $70,000 over the course of two years toward a research project.
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UC Berkeley astronomers, undergraduate contributor elucidate Neptune, Uranus dark spots
A team of UC Berkeley astronomers, along with an undergraduate contributor, analyzed a series of Uranus and Neptune NASA photos released in late 2018, discovering new information about the planets’ atmospheres.
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UC Berkeley must demand funding for basic research
At the end of November, the spacecraft InSight landed on Mars and captured the hearts of people around the country. NASA will explore the deep interior of Mars with the goal of understanding the planet’s composition and evolution. The InSight landing is significant not only because it accesses new data
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Inspirational ‘GOATs’ of UC Berkeley and their majors
The Clog presents five role models, who started their early careers right here and truly embody what it means to be a Berkeley “GOAT,” or “Greatest of All Time” (not to be confused with the literal goats in the Berkeley hills).
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California must localize agricultural production and eliminate water-intense agriculture
If you can tear your eyes off the ocean while driving up the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego, you’ll be surprised to a see a pumpkin patch balancing on sandstone bluffs. Drive north through rural Fresno and you’ll pass miles of a vineyard oasis in the dry Central Valley.
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A look at Berkeley-based startup Squishy Robotics and campus startup resource Bear Founders
“There’s a wave of entrepreneurship across campuses, and I think they’ll follow in Cal’s footsteps,” Hammer said.
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UC Berkeley researchers build part of solar probe launched by NASA
The Parker Solar Probe, or PSP, was launched into space Aug. 12. Two of its four instruments, FIELDS and SWEAP, were built by campus researchers.
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Picks of the Week: New media, new you — this week’s on- and off-screen events
If you’ve taken all my advice, you will be thoroughly fried from all your nights out and will probably be in need of a night in.
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