Berkeley School Board set to vote on slashed budget for cooking and gardening...
UPDATE, March 27: As expected, the Berkeley Unified School Board last night voted to commit $485,000 for the coming year to its gardening program, under the terms outlined it the proposal that called...
View ArticleBerkeley 7th graders present 3-D project at White House
Berkeley 7th graders Jane Yarnell and Sam Schickler and their Black Pine Circle School science teacher Christine Mytko will attend the first-ever White House Maker Faire today as “honored guests.” The...
View ArticleCal prof Joshua Bloom makes earthquake alert kit for $110
When the Napa earthquake struck on Aug. 24, Joshua Bloom had a 5-second warning. That’s because the UC Berkeley astronomy professor likes to tinker. It was when Bloom was a beta tester in the prototype...
View ArticleOutcry after Berkeley High abruptly cancels physics lab
The physics lab class at Berkeley High School started out this year with a big bang – a sudden burst of students. And then it collapsed, when the course was cancelled without a word. In the first week...
View ArticleBayer invests $100M in new testing facility in Berkeley
Bayer HealthCare on Wednesday announced an investment of $100 million to build a new product testing facility at the company’s 45-acre manufacturing site in West Berkeley. The funds will support the...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab opens gleaming supercomputer center
After more than a decade of planning, alternative sites and lawsuits, Berkeley Lab opened its new center for computational science Thursday. The 149,000 sq. ft. Wang Hall houses the National Energy...
View ArticleBioBlitz logs biodiversity on UC Berkeley campus
A crowd of intrepid young scientists brushed off Saturday morning rain to participate in the Berkeley BioBlitz. The BioBlitz was designed to be an intensive study of biodiversity on the UC Berkeley...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab scientists set sail to unlock climate data
What’s life like aboard a scientific research vessel plying the California coast deploying robots to unlock important data about climate change?
View ArticleCal prof emerita Marian Diamond, known for studies of Einstein’s brain, dies...
Marian Cleeves Diamond was one of the founders of modern neuroscience.
View ArticleFireball’s ‘spectacular’ effect Wednesday was rare, says NASA expert
The meteor that left a stunning visual in the sky landed about 50 miles out from Half Moon Bay, an astronomer says.
View ArticleA Berkeley High grad, now a professor of astronomy, discovers a new planet
The new planet, “DS Tuc Ab,” circles a bright young star outside our solar system.
View ArticleNew worry for parents: Study by Berkeley science institute finds toxic...
The director of Step One Preschool replaced rugs after a study by the Green Science Policy Institute found worrisome chemicals in the carpets of that school and 17 others.
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