‘Climate Break’: A podcast focused on solutions to the climate crisis
In bite-sized episodes, this weekly podcast by UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and Environment steers away from climate doom and zeros in on what can be done
View ArticleRetooling the translation machine could expand the chemical repertoire of cells
An effort led by UC Berkeley scientists aims to retool the ribosomal machine to make far more than proteins. Their goal is totally new polymers with novel building blocks.
View ArticleNew technique in error-prone quantum computing makes classical computers sweat
In a recent competition, a state-of-the-art quantum computer barely edged out a supercomputer, showing the growing utility of even noisy quantum computers.
View ArticleState funds development of first-of-its-kind police misconduct database
UC Berkeley researchers and their partners will receive $6.87 million to develop the Police Records Access Project, a database of police misconduct and use-of-force records in California
View ArticlePortable sun-powered water harvester could combat water scarcity
Using highly porous MOFs, chemist Omar Yaghi has developed a portable water harvester that can pull drinkable water from the air using only the power of sunlight
View ArticleBerkeley Talks: Siri creator Adam Cheyer shares secrets of entrepreneurship
In this Berkeley Talks episode, Cheyer tells the story of Siri and explains how to take an entrepreneurial idea from conception to impact
View ArticleWhen ET calls, can we be sure we’re not being spoofed?
A new SETI technique developed by Breakthrough Listen researchers filters out Earth interference to focus on extraterrestrial signals only
View ArticleOppenheimer: July 28 panel discussion focuses on the man behind the movie
The new movie Oppenheimer focuses on the Manhattan Project and its aftermath. But before that, Oppenheimer turned UC Berkeley into the U.S. center of theoretical physics
View ArticleBerkeley startup founder talks FlowGPT and concerns over the future of AI
Lifan Wang discusses how he met his FlowGPT co-founder, Jay Dang, at UC Berkeley, and why speed was critical for his startup in entering the AI market.
View ArticleOpen-source platform makes it easier to create 3D scenes from images
Nerfstudio provides plug-and-play components for implementing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), a technology that turns images into 3D navigable scenes
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