UC Berkeley |
Berkeley-borne technology spreading faster than ever
Since Cal's tech-transfer office opened, more than 800 companies have sponsored research projects, investing important resources in many areas and resulting in significant patent and licensing fees.
Wired |
Quantum supergravity could explain weirdness of black holes
Physicists have searched for a theory of quantum gravity for 80 years. A UCLA physicist is betting big on a once sidelined theory called supergravity.
UC Irvine |
Titanium clubs can cause golf course fires
Sparks fly when head hits rocks in the rough, potentially igniting brush
Science Today |
A conversation about the California drought
How is California dealing with drought? A conversation with Doug Parker, director of the California Institute for Water and leader of the UC Agriculture & Natural Resources Water Quality, Quantity, and Security Strategic Initiative.
Wall Street Journal |
The future of brain implants
How soon can we expect to see brain implants for perfect memory, enhanced vision, hypernormal focus or an expert golf swing?
UC San Diego |
Lied-to children more likely to cheat and lie
When adults are dishonest with their offspring, the children mirror that behavior.
UC Santa Cruz |
Bringing plant back from the brink of extinction
Experimental reintroductions are helping to establish new populations of a critically endangered wetland plant.
UCLA |
Geographers create 'easy button' to calculate river flows from space
The frustrated attempts of a graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.
New York Times |
Fusion: machinery of an energy dream
The challenge: how to keep fusion going long enough.
UC San Diego |
Glimpse of Big Bang 'fingerprint'
Cosmologists detect curling patterns that appear to have resulted from the initial expansion of the universe.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Long dry spells ahead
By century's end, some parts of the world will have as much as a month less rainfall.
UC Santa Barbara |
You should be ashamed — or maybe not
Sociologist examines the ubiquity of shame and its role in aggression and depression.