Dudley Featured on KQED Science
Submitted by khansen on Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:23Research by Professor Robert Dudley and postdoc Victor Ortega is featured in a segment on KQED Science about Hummingbirds in a wind tunnel.
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Student Has Fun Exploring Disco Clam’s Underwater World
Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 03/30/2015 - 11:25Lindsey Dougherty’s love of the sea eventually led her to UC Berkeley, where she is now a graduate student focusing on one of the ocean’s more unusual critters: a clam that flashes in the deep.
This behavior earned it the nickname ‘disco clam,’ and Dougherty is working with UC Berkeley’s Roy Caldwell, professor of integrative biology, to explore how and why it flashes its mirrored lips.
Herbicide Impacts Focus of BGSU Talk
Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 03/23/2015 - 09:16Dr. Tyrone Hayes, an assistant professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, will present "From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men." He will discuss the harmful impacts of chemical contaminants on amphibians and humans in Bowling Green State University's 2015 Jean Pasakarnis-Buchanan Lecture Tuesday 7 p.m. in 112 Life Sciences Building on campus.
Conifers' Helicoptering Seeds are the Result of a Long Evolutionary Experiment
Submitted by rhkayen on Tue, 03/17/2015 - 11:31The whirling, winged seeds of today's conifers are an engineering wonder and, as University of California, Berkeley, scientists show, a result of about 270 million years of evolution by trees experimenting with the best way to disperse their seeds.
A Preview of Dodging Extinction
Submitted by rhkayen on Fri, 03/06/2015 - 08:52Anthony D. Barnosky is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, Curator in the Museum of Paleontology, and Research Paleoecologist in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Food that Grows from Concrete
Submitted by rhkayen on Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:52Imagine eating at your favorite restaurant and being told that the salad on your plate was harvested from the cracks in the sidewalk in West Oakland. Would you eat it? Two professors from UC Berkeley think you should. Their project is called Berkeley Open Source Food.
Berkeley, the National Park Service and the Vital Role of Science in the Parks
Submitted by rhkayen on Thu, 02/12/2015 - 14:43“Science for the Parks, the Parks for Science: The Next Century,” a new video collaboration by UC Berkeley and the National Park Service, which takes viewers along with scientists taking the measure of changes in Yosemite.
UC Berkeley was a key player in decisions made during the founding of Yosemite, and, along with influential alumni, drove the effort to establish the National Park Service. The video was made as part of the NPS’s celebration of its centennial this year, which focuses science in the parks.
Tyrone Hayes’ Tale of Atrazine, Frogs and Syngenta
Submitted by rhkayen on Thu, 01/29/2015 - 08:03The story of Tyrone Hayes' study of atrazine and Syngenta’s efforts to destroy his credibility, brought to life as a short documentary, “What’s Motivating Hayes,” directed by Jonathan Demme.
Kaufer and Bentley Research on Infertility
Submitted by khansen on Wed, 01/14/2015 - 05:12Associate Professors George Bentley and Daniela Kaufer have just published research on how blocking gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (GnIH) could eliminate stress-induced infertility.
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Patel Featured on KQED Science
Submitted by khansen on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 13:59Research by Professor Nipam Patel on how butterflies can color their wings with pigmentless "structural color" is featured on KQED Science.