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Edible Ed 101’s food all-stars serve up ambitious spring menu
Michael Pollan's opening lecture for Edible Education 101 at UC Berkeley this spring drew a crowd in person and online Monday. His talk on food and the many ways it matters is now...
Tyrone Hayes’ Tale of Atrazine, Frogs and Syngenta
The story of Tyrone Hayes' study of atrazine and Syngenta’s efforts to destroy his credibility, brought to life as a short documentary, “What’s Motivating Hayes,” directed by...
Alumna Lee receives NSF CAREER Award
Congratulations to PhD alumna Somin Eunice Lee, now Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, recipient of an NSF CAREER award for...
Quantum computer as detector shows space is not squeezed
UC Berkeley physicists used partially entangled atoms identical to the qubits in a quantum computer to demonstrate more precisely than ever before - to one part in a billion...
Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99
Charles Hard Townes, a professor emeritus of physics who built the first microwave amplifier -- the maser -- and designed the first laser, died Jan. 27 at the age of 99. After...

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