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- These cyborg bacteria are better at photosynthesis than plants Fri, 25 Aug 17, 12:18amCould cyborg bacteria generate the clean fuel of the future? Work conducted at Peidong Yang's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) basically allowed bacteria to cover themselves in small semiconductors...
- Researchers develop solar-powered device to harvest water in the desert Sat, 15 Apr 17, 12:56amA solar-powered device could make water worries a thing of the past. Nine scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, and University of California, Berkeley...
- Tree of Life redesigned to reflect thousands of new species Wed, 13 Apr 16, 8:00pmRelated: Via The Atlantic Images via Nature Microbiology article "A new view of the tree of life" and Brooke Hoyer on Flickr
- UC Berkeley unveils 3D-printed “Bloom” building made of powdered cement Tue, 10 Mar 15, 8:08amRonald Rael and UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design just unveiled the world's largest 3D printed building made from powdered cement! Measuring 9 feet high by 12 feet wide and 12 feet deep, the swirling Bloom pavilion...
- World’s largest 3D-printed building made of powdered cement unveiled at UC Berkeley Sat, 7 Mar 15, 10:30amRonald Rael and UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design just unveiled the world's largest 3D printed building made from powdered cement! Measuring 9 feet high by 12 feet wide and 12 feet deep, the swirling Bloom pavilion...
- World’s largest 3D-printed building made from powdered cement unveiled at UC Berkeley Sat, 7 Mar 15, 5:34amRonald Rael and UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design just unveiled the world's largest 3D printed building made from powdered cement! Measuring 9 feet high by 12 feet wide and 12 feet deep, the swirling Bloom pavilion...
- Light Activated Smart Curtains Could Cut Energy Bills by Half Tue, 21 Jan 14, 12:00amResearchers at the University of California, Berkeley are working on a new set of smart curtains that could cut your energy usage in half. Made from fabric embedded with carbon nanotubes, the curtains would respond to light,...
- About that ‘warmer temperatures increase violence’ claim…real world crime data doesn’t support it Sat, 3 Aug 13, 11:43amReaders surely recall the wild claim yesterday made by researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley who reported in the journal Science that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation...
- Claim: 2°C temperature increase will make people angry Fri, 2 Aug 13, 5:48amFrom Princeton University (with help from Berkeley) Cool heads likely won’t prevail in a hotter, wetter world Should climate change trigger the upsurge in heat and rainfall that scientists predict, people may face a...
- Future shifts in rainfall Wed, 3 Apr 13, 9:28pmFrom UC Berkeley: Rising temperature difference between hemispheres could dramatically shift rainfall patterns in tropics By Robert Sanders, Media Relations BERKELEY — One often ignored consequence of global climate change...
- Inconvenient conclusions in a new climate and land use paper Sun, 9 Dec 12, 5:30amDr. Roger Pielke Sr. sends word of this new paper now in early release at the Journal of Climate. The paper suggests humans have strong impacts on the local climate, but not always through the pathways commonly touted as...
- Another hole in the climate models – no lamp black forcing Fri, 30 Nov 12, 3:40amInteresting point, but I wonder how such a change would come about when people often can’t afford an alternative? Let there be clean light: Kerosene lamps spew black carbon, should be replaced, study says By Sarah Yang,...
- Soundscapes of Smog Lets You Hear the Pollution of US Cities Tue, 18 Sep 12, 2:40amSouthern California is notorious for its smog, but just a few hundred miles away in the High Sierras, the air is much cleaner. To demonstrate the difference, researchers Aaron Reuben and Gabriel Isaacman of Yale Center for...
- Global Warming to Increase Frequency of US Wildfires Thu, 14 Jun 12, 1:00amWildfire Image from Shutterstock Wildfires have increased in number and ferocity over recent years, and at present the US is battling large-scale blazes in Colorado and New Mexico...
- H2O 2012 conference theme: “please send money” Wed, 30 May 12, 11:43amFrom Stanford University , this press release with a “who the heck cares?” question as a title. We have far bigger problems in California to worry about. It is another one of these “might result” weasel...