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"There have been many analyses on how climate change could affect the water and energy sectors separately, but those studies were not typically looking at interactions and feedbacks between the two,"

Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocks University of California – Berkeley If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a...

Study shows New York Times coverage of climate change slights the facts of global warming University of California – Berkeley The New York Times makes a concerted effort to drive home the point that climate change is...

MIght as well make it three California stories in a row. By Dale Kasler at the Sacramento Bee dkasler@sacbee.com Higher crime rates and electric bills. Crops and laborers wilting in the sun. A new study says California’s...

A solar-powered device could make water worries a thing of the past. Nine scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, and University of California, Berkeley...

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Steven Sanchez was paralyzed from the waist down after a BMX bike accident that occurred ten years ago, but now he can walk again with the help of a robotic exoskeleton aptly named the Phoenix...

We love innovations that bring us a little closer to having real life superpowers. Superhuman night vision, the strength to scale buildings, and the ability to disappear in plain sight are all things we’d like to do,...

Volcanoes are fascinating, powerful, and somewhat mysterious. Researchers at University of California at Berkeley have been working on shedding a little light on the subject, by using supercomputers and seismic waves to...

A simple lunch with a homeless vet changed forever the life of Komal Ahmad, who was then a student UC, Berkeley and is now a CEO. Ahmad was walking near campus a few years ago when a homeless man asked her for money, she...

In amongst numerous discussions about reducing greenhouse gases stands a glaring question: what are the greatest sources of household emissions? To answer this, and provide a tool to help cities devise localized, comprehensive...

Echoviren 3D-printed pavilion by Smith|Allen from Dezeen on Vimeo. Architects across the world have been racing to build the world’s first 3D printed architectural structure. Many of the designs, like the 'endless'...

UC Berkeley’s new Dreambox is a vending machine like no other – it incorporates a 3D printer that makes and dispenses goodies right before your eyes! By connecting to a cloud-based computing system hosted within...

Jet photo from Shutterstock Thanks to scientists harnessing the power of chemistry, you may one day soon fly in a plane fueled by plants. An article published in the journal Nature last week describes a new technique developed...

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