Topic: University of California-Berkeley

Computers Harness Brain Activity

It sounds like science fiction, but scientists around the world are getting tantalizingly close to building the mind-controlled prosthetic arms...

Astronomers ID Supernova Source

A supernova that exploded in August was a white dwarf star, but its companion could not have been a red giant as previously suspected, U.S ...

Fomalhaut B "First" Planet Picture in Doubt

from USA Today. . The Hubble space telescope's first photo of a planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting a nearby star, may actually be "scattered dust" and...
When the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the apparent exoplanet Fomalhaut b in 2008, it was regarded as the first visible light image obtained...

Keeping brain sharp may ward off Alzheimer's protein

Tweet Comment 0 . People who challenge their brains throughout - through reading, writing and - are less likely to develop protein deposits in the...
Jeffrey Grossman says Cambridge has a better climate than California - for carrying out materials science research, that is. That's why Grossman...

Gossiping good for you, society

If you don't have something nice to say ... well, go ahead and say it anyway. You may actually be doing something good for your health as well as...

Challenge your mind to prevent Alzhemier's

New evidence that challenging your mind throughout your life could be the key to preventing Alzheimer's disease. . . . Researchers at UC Berkeley...
"The story of how the Judah L. Magnes Museum - whose collection of Judaica is the third largest in the country - became the Magnes Collection of...

Crowdsourcing earthquake activity

Ars Technica: New technologies are enabling crowdsourcing in a number of scientific disciplines-most recently, seismology. After the 23 August 2011...