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A new (and surprising) way to use solar panels

In the middle of California's Central Valley, a new way to use solar panels could change how we think about clean energy and water. It’s a simple idea that people have talked about for decades, but only now is it finally being tested in real life.

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Journey to UC: An immersive, multicampus program changes the game for prospective transfer students

Journey to UC, a three-day, all-expenses-paid residential program jointly hosted by UC Davis and UC Berkeley, brings the transfer process to students from the farthest reaches of the state.
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UC Davis to safeguard spring-run Chinook salmon broodstock

UC Davis joins state and federal fisheries agencies to conserve threatened spring-run Chinook salmon, housing captive broodstock.
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Tests confirm humans tramped around North America more than 20,000 years ago

A new study coauthored by a UC Berkeley professor provides "seemingly incontrovertible proof" that humans arrived in the Americas thousands of years earlier than scientists have long thought.
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A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wildland conservation

“We're active in cultural revitalization, language revitalization, and doing this burn is one of those missing puzzle pieces,” said Robyne Redwater, whose family hails from villages in Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands.

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