The University of California was chartered in 1868 and its flagship campus — envisioned as a “City of Learning” — was established at Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay. Today the world’s premier public university and a wellspring of innovation, UC Berkeley occupies a 1,232 acre campus with a sylvan 178-acre central core. From this home its academic community makes key contributions to the economic and social well-being of the Bay Area, California, and the nation.
Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines weigh in on what to expect as each country’s voters prepare to head to the ballot box.
As Cleveland emerged as a major manufacturing centre, the Cuyahoga River became heavily affected by industrial pollution and regularly caught fire.
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The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the broader effects of conflict, any less critical.
Black is beautiful.
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Elizabeth Carlen, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and Tyus Williams, University of California, Berkeley
Lo que más miedo puede dar de un espeluznante gato negro es el modo en que la superstición y la tradición conforman las percepciones y prejuicios de la gente sobre los animales basándose únicamente en su color.
As the climate warms and landscapes become drier, researchers fear that valley fever could spread across other regions of the U.S.
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Cases of valley fever are typically most prevalent in California’s Central Valley and southern Arizona, but they have been increasing in California’s central and southern coastal areas.
Fine particulate matter from wildfires can cause long-term health harms.
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Which is riskier for your health: a few days of very bad PM₂.₅ exposure or many more days of slightly bad exposure? Researchers developed new metrics to provide better answers.
Africa could be headed for a green growth scenario, where it curbs greenhouse gas emissions and grows economies through local manufacturing of green energy equipment.
Future geologists may wonder how this cow (native to Eurasia) found itself in a California wildfire.
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Seperti halnya ekspresi budaya lainnya, cara kita menamai anak ternyata juga mengikuti tren. Hal ini terkait dengan selera dan juga pergeseran sosial yang lebih luas.
À medida que os subúrbios se aproximam das terras agrícolas, aumenta o risco de exposição dos moradores a produtos químicos agrícolas.
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Uma nova pesquisa fornece evidências, pela primeira vez, de que o principal produto químico do Roundup está atingindo as pessoas que moram nas proximidades, e não é apenas pelos alimentos que elas consomem.
As suburbs encroach on farmland, residents’ risk of exposure to farm chemicals rises.
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New research provides evidence for the first time that the primary chemical in Roundup is reaching people in nearby homes, and it isn’t just from the food they eat.
Sebuah alat pemadat sampah menggulingkan tempat pembuangan sampah aktif di TPA Pioneer Crossing di Birdsboro, Pa.
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Manusia menghasilkan banyak sampah, tetapi ada cara yang lebih murah dan lebih aman untuk menanganinya daripada mengangkutnya ke dalam roket.
Children wave peace doves at a concert for peace in Bogota, Colombia, in August 2022.
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While Americans tend not to use the word “peace,” and instead opt for terms like “safety and security,” their desires and fears are not so different from what people in war-torn places express.
La température de surface lors de la vague de chaleur de fin juillet 2019 sur l’Europe de l’Ouest.
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Robin Noyelle, Université Paris-Saclay; Davide Faranda, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), and Yi Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Quelle pourrait être les températures maximales en Europe ? Comment se forment les vagues de chaleur ?
Herjayanto, dosen di Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, bersama tim ilmuwan Yayasan Celebica bersama nelayan meneliti populasi Ikan Rono Lindu (Xenopoecilus sarasinorum).
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Composer Nicholas Britell festoons earnest Romantic music with sounds that gleefully desecrate it, underscoring the show’s emotional core: a lust for power joined by immense self-loathing.
Common household products such as cleaning agents can contain a wide range of harmful chemicals.
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Manufacturers don’t usually have to disclose what’s in products like shampoo and household cleaners, but a new study finds that these products can contain hazardous ingredients.
What does generative AI mean for the human need to create, work and seek the truth?
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Generative AI can seem like magic, which makes it both enticing and frightening. Scholars are helping society come to grips with the potential benefits and harms.
Easter has its bunnies, but chocolate comes out for every holiday.
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Two food scientists, an entomologist, an anthropologist, a veterinarian and a historian walk into a bar (of chocolate) and tell bitter and sweet stories of this favorite treat.