Fireball’s ‘spectacular’ effect Wednesday was rare, says NASA expert
The meteor that left a stunning visual in the sky landed about 50 miles out from Half Moon Bay, an astronomer says.
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Cal prof emerita Marian Diamond, known for studies of Einstein’s brain, dies at 90
Marian Cleeves Diamond was one of the founders of modern neuroscience.
Berkeley Lab scientists set sail to unlock climate data
What’s life like aboard a scientific research vessel plying the California coast deploying robots to unlock important data about climate change?
BioBlitz logs biodiversity on UC Berkeley campus
A crowd of intrepid young scientists brushed off Saturday morning rain to participate in the Berkeley BioBlitz. The BioBlitz was designed to be an intensive study of biodiversity on the UC Berkeley campus, and was one of over two dozen BioBlitz events held around California to celebrate the National Park centennial.
Berkeley Lab opens gleaming supercomputer center
After more than a decade of planning, alternative sites and lawsuits, Berkeley Lab opened its new center for computational science Thursday. The 149,000 sq. ft. Wang Hall houses the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), one of the world’s leading supercomputing facilities for open science, and the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, the world’s fastest network dedicated to science.
Bayer invests $100M in new testing facility in Berkeley
Bayer HealthCare on Wednesday announced an investment of $100 million to build a new product testing facility at the company’s 45-acre manufacturing site in West Berkeley. The funds will support the pharmaceutical company’s next generation of hemophilia A therapies.
Outcry after Berkeley High abruptly cancels physics lab
The physics lab class at Berkeley High School started out this year with a big bang – a sudden burst of students. And then it collapsed, when the course was cancelled without a word.
Cal prof Joshua Bloom makes earthquake alert kit for $110
When the Napa earthquake struck on Aug. 24, Joshua Bloom had a 5-second warning.
Berkeley 7th graders present 3-D project at White House
Berkeley 7th graders Jane Yarnell and Sam Schickler and their Black Pine Circle School science teacher Christine Mytko will attend the first-ever White House Maker Faire today as “honored guests.”
Berkeley School Board set to vote on slashed budget for cooking and gardening program
UPDATE, March 27: As expected, the Berkeley Unified School Board last night voted to commit $485,000 for the coming year to its gardening program, under the terms outlined it the proposal that called for gardening classes for pre-kindergarten through grade 7. [See the full proposal on the BUSD Board meeting agenda packet, starting on page 54.] Commenting on the move, Martin Bourque, executive director of the Ecology Center, said Berkeley was showing leadership in finding money from its budget for the pioneering program after losing nearly $2 million in federal funding. “Who else is stepping up like that on their own dime?” he said. “Berkeley is leading the way.”
Berkeley Lab’s Carl Haber: A genius in our midst
What does winning sound like? The definition of winning for MacArthur Genius Award recipient and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicist Carl Haber is surprising.
UC Berkeley professor wins Nobel Prize for Medicine
Randy W. Schekman, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the UC Berkeley, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. He won the top prize for “his role in revealing the machinery that regulates the transport and secretion of proteins in our cells,” according to the university.
