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An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.
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Science at Cal and The Lawrence Hall of Science are hosting a full-blown SCIENCE-PALOOZA on the beautiful and spacious outdoor plaza of The Lawrence overlooking the Bay. This event will showcase over 15 interactive and engaging STEM activities from UC Berkeley departments, student groups, scientists, artists, designers, and our partners. Come […]
Cockroaches often choose to have head on collisions with obstacles with vertical walls they mean to traverse in order to maintain top speed. They do this as opposed to avoiding a collisions to have a clean transitions up the wall and not perform any destructive acts. As […]
Researchers from the University of Oregon have grown rodent retinal neurons on a fractal-patterned electrode, one that mimics the repeating branching pattern in which neurons naturally grow. These neurons, which themselves are fractals, will connect better to a fractal-patterned electrode than they do to more traditionally shaped electrodes, allowing better signal […]
Bio-inspired defenses may help mitigate the threat of IED carrying drones in combat. The latest proof comes out of Australia, where researchers have mapped the visual systems of hovering insects as a means of detecting the acoustic signatures of drones up to 2.5 miles away. The hover fly, which can hover […]
New study is first anatomical evidence for how two major groups of bats use echolocation differently.
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Festo, a global supplier of automation equipment, has unveiled three new lightweight robotic concepts which take inspiration from elephants, octopuses and the human arm.
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At this month’s Midday Science Cafe, we’ll learn about two new meat alternatives made from foods we already know and love: seaweed and mushrooms! First course: seaweed. Dr. Amanda Stiles from Berkeley Lab is researching ways to extract the protein from seaweeds and incorporate it into delicious new foods. The highly-digestible, […]
As part of the Design Field Notes series, Berkeley architecture associate professor M. Paz Gutierrez joined Jacobs Hall for its annual Fall Talks. In her talk, she shared her genre-bending projects, which often draw from nature for inspiration and materials. Explaining that she […]
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found that Harris Hawks, when pursuing an erratically maneuvering dummy bunny, can utilize a mixed guidance law to more effectively pursue it. Their turn rate is determined by feeding back information on the angle between their target and current flight direction, along with how […]
In this connection we have highlighted an article that describes how scientists have a breakthrough in their understanding of the proteins that allow venus flytraps to be touch sensitive and close. The name of this protein is called Flycatcher1, and having a better understanding of it gives scientists a better idea […]
Scientists have discovered new information about the tiny propellers used by single-cell organisms called archaea.
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Our undergraduate journal club covers CRISPR genome-editing technology, basic research uses, and real-world applications. The seminal papers we’ll discuss reveal core concepts and key experiments, touching on a range of topics, from the foundational development of CRISPR to its use in treating genetic diseases and engineering agriculture.
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I imagine that the neurological circuits underlying these processes are governed by both 2d spacing maps with their brains as…
to reduce the impact of car accidents, it may be possible to study the force diverting physics of cockroaches to…
you see this type of head-bobbing stability in many avian creatures related to pigeons like chickens. the head ability to…
not like they taught horses how to run! this is an example of convergent evolution where both sea creatures and…
The brain functions in a similar way with neuronal connections. our brains are able to utilize the multiplicity of connections…