ICYMI, last week, professor emeritus John Clarke shared the Nobel Prize in physics with John Martinis and Michel Devoret, who worked alongside Clarke researching quantum tunneling while at Cal. And for chemistry, Professor Omar Yaghi was recognized for his work in developing

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While the team’s primary goal is to save the source of chocolate for future generations, they hope their work also builds public support for genetic engineering of crops: The same methods that they are now using to save cacao could also be applied to staple foods facing similar

At Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute, Staskawicz and his colleague Myeong-Je Cho are working toward solutions, using CRISPR gene-editing technology to create cacao plants resistant to CSSV and other diseases.

The world’s cacao crops, the majority of which are grown in the West African countries of Ghana and Côte D’Ivoire, are under siege from the combined threats of climate change and disease. Excessive rains damaged last year’s harvest, as did the ravages of the Cacao Swollen Shoot

A future without chocolate seems almost unimaginable. But according to UC Berkeley’s Brian Staskawicz, it is a very real possibility. Learn more in this thread.🧵

Two years ago, a novel analysis by UC Berkeley researchers pointed to comb jellies as the root of the animal tree of life. Another Berkeley group now says it’s sponges.

How does @UCBerkeley Nobel laureate Omar Yhagi's "Metal-Organic Frameworks" work? Imagine Hermione Granger's seemingly bottomless enchanted handbag in the Harry Potter series...

Bears put the STUDENT in student-athlete 🧠🎓 Cal matched its all-time high graduation success rate for the second straight year 🎉 🔗 https://t.co/250VvKkLIp #GoBears

A two decade long experiment in the Sierra Nevada found that regular prescribed burns promote carbon sequestration in live trees and plants, maintaining forests’ long-term ability to store carbon while also reducing wildfire hazard.

Always fun talking with @bheater! In this 60-min podcast we discuss the Jetsons TV show, humanoid hubris, the robot data gap, why robot dexterity is hard, and around minute 49:00: the similarities between art and research.

Tens of thousands of U.S. veterans never made it home. This UC Berkeley archaeologist is working to speed up efforts to recover them.

We’re SOARin’, flyin’ ✈️ At the Student Organization Applied Research (SOAR) labs, that is! Today marks the launch of this new hub for creativity, hands-on learning and teamwork at Richmond Field Station. Here’s to kicking off a new era of student innovation!

Collections at UC Berkeley's California Language Archive help keep Indigenous languages alive. This is the story of one of them.

Their stereo view of the Martian magnetosphere will help scientists understand how Mars evolved, protect future astronaut communications, and test a new trajectory built for the day we send fleets of spacecraft to the Red Planet.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has successfully launched @NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars from Cape Canaveral. ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley–led planetary mission, using two twin satellites, Blue and Gold, to map Mars’ magnetic field and atmosphere in 3D.

Researchers at UC Berkeley pioneered a greener way to extract rare earth elements with a biomining approach that uses genetically engineered viruses!

A new study from UC Berkeley and @ProjectCETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) started with a whale of a question 🐋. Are whales using elements of human language? https://t.co/Qgy0vA2XNt

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New study: a M7.25 Hayward Fault quake could cut Bay Area hospital capacity ~in half and raise travel times to care by ~177%—showing how hospital + transport failures can compound into a crisis. Regional, interdependent planning is essential. https://t.co/0TFmqqk2Eg

California has always been where the future happens first, from semiconductors to clean energy. Now, with the launch of Quantum California at @UCBerkeley, we’re leading the next revolution in quantum technology, innovation, and job creation for decades to come.