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Robert Sanders

Berkeley

Science Writer, UC Berkeley at GMA Talkback

UC Berkeley science writer and fan of all things science, from particle physics and nano to bugs and the science of cooking.

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Articles

  • Not one, but two massive black holes are eating away at this galaxy

    1 week ago | news.berkeley.edu | Robert Sanders

    Astronomers have discovered nearly 100 examples of massive black holes shredding and devouring stars, almost all of them where you’d expect to find massive black holes: in the star-dense cores of massive galaxies. University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have now discovered the first instance of a massive black hole tearing apart a star thousands of light years from the galaxy’s core, which itself contains a massive black hole.

  • Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

    1 week ago | news.berkeley.edu | Robert Sanders

    Lindy Elkins-Tanton, a planetary scientist from Arizona State University (ASU) who currently leads a $1.2 billion NASA mission to explore an asteroid called Psyche, has been chosen as the new director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL).

  • Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

    2 weeks ago | news.berkeley.edu | Robert Sanders

    As a descendent of an indigenous Amazonian tribe, Maria Astolfi was concerned about research she conducted as a graduate student at UC Berkeley involving an extract of a plant long used for medicinal purposes by the Mapuche peoples of Chile. The research in the lab of Jay Keasling, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, sought to reproduce in yeast a molecule from the Chilean soapbark tree that is used as an adjuvant or enhancer in many vaccines.

  • A spate of suicides drew this alumna back to UC Berkeley to confront mental health issues in academia

    3 weeks ago | news.berkeley.edu | Robert Sanders

    The academic year 2013-14 changed the direction of Wendy Ingram’s life. Over the course of a few months, four members of the UC Berkeley department in which she was a graduate student died by suicide: an undergraduate student, a doctoral student, a post-doctoral fellow and a faculty member. The tragic events left many in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) reeling, but Ingram also found that the suicides prompted co-workers to share their own mental health issues.

  • On Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down

    1 month ago | news.berkeley.edu | Robert Sanders

    A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet’s equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red represent, respectively, higher and lower than normal abundances of ammonia gas.

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Robert Sanders
Robert Sanders @bobthesciguy
21 Apr 25

After getting her PhD @UCBerkeley amid a string of suicides, Wendy Ingram devoted her life to improving mental health in academia through @DragonflyMH https://t.co/UNgJBhzs5i

Robert Sanders
Robert Sanders @bobthesciguy
16 Apr 25

Electrifying Caltrain last year reduced noxious & carcinogenic black carbon particulates by nearly 90%, @UCBerkeley study shows https://t.co/amdCqss1Lo

Robert Sanders
Robert Sanders @bobthesciguy
15 Apr 25

Lightning storms on Jupiter produce mushballs, new evidence shows. That is, slushy hailstones of ammonia and water with a coating of ice. https://t.co/TrJytsvzYL @UCBerkeley