Posts Tagged ‘uc berkeley’
Monday, January 9th, 2012

Here’s a tale about tails—lizards’, robots’ and dinosaurs’ tails to be exact.
Tags: bio-inspiration, biomimicry, dinosaurs, lizards, robert full, robots, uc berkeley, velociraptor
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Friday, November 11th, 2011

Birds of a feather: enjoy recent stories of the science of birds in today’s news roundup.
Tags: birds, climate change, extinction, hummingbirds, jack dumbacher, prbo, robins, san francisco, sf state, starlings, uc berkeley, wrens
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Monday, October 31st, 2011

Happy Halloween! We thought we’d get you in the mood with some really creepy spiders—Lycosoidea.
Tags: charles griswold, sf state, spiders, uc berkeley
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Lightweight, mobile microscopes are not only being used in third world countries to diagnose disease, but also in classrooms to get kids excited about science.
Tags: disease, education, microbes, microscopes, uc berkeley, viruses
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Can a winged robot from UC Berkeley shed light on the evolution of flight?
Tags: bio-inspiration, biomimicry, biorobot, cockroaches, flight, insects, robot, uc berkeley
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

A mobile app, designed by researchers at UC Berkeley, is helping citizens track Sudden Oak Death.
Tags: maggi kelly, mobile app, oaks, pathogen, sudden oak death, uc berkeley
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Can scientists create technology to mimic woodpeckers’ shock-absorbing heads?
Tags: bio-inspiration, biomimicry, skulls, uc berkeley, woodpeckers
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.
Tags: alternative energy, arsenic, astronomy, bacteria, bats, bedbugs, biodiversity, brain, census, cern, dna, earthquake, electric, eruption, exoplanets, Eyjafjallajökull, falcon 9, genome, graphene, gulf of mexico, hubble, insects, jupiter, kepler, lhc, marine life, microbes, moon, mosquitoes, multiverse, nasa, neanderthal, noaa, oceans, oil spill, renewables, roof, saturn, solar, solar system, synthetic, uc berkeley, universe, volcano, wormholes
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Physicists have trapped 38 antihydrogen atoms for one sixth of a second in a large machine at CERN. What will they discover?
Tags: antihydrogen, antimatter, cern, collider, large hadron, lhc, uc berkeley
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Friday, November 12th, 2010

Here are some recent fish stories we didn’t want you to miss.
Tags: fish, krill, mangrove killfish, school, shoal, stickleback, uc berkeley, ucsf, zebrafish
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