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First detailed look at the guts of world’s smallest lifeforms
UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab scientist Jill Banfield and colleagues have for the first time snapped detailed microscopic photos of what may be the smallest forms of life on Earth...
Bakar Fellow works to bring the invisible to light
EECS professor Laura Waller is working on computational imaging methods for quantitative phase microscopy, which can be applied in a variety of scientific and industrial settings...
UC’s first Nobel Prize presented in Berkeley 75 years ago
UC's first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1939 to Ernest Lawrence for the invention of the atom smasher, but the prize ceremony in Sweden was canceled because of looming war in Europe...
Back to the future: Berkeley and the national parks start a second century of science
A conference focusing on the science emphasis of the National Park Service’s centennial will take place March 25-27 at UC Berkeley, exactly a century after an historic conference...
Study IDs key birds that host Lyme disease bacteria in California
A new UC Berkeley-led study has found that birds are more important than previously recognized as hosts for Lyme disease-causing bacteria in California. Small mammals have been...

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