Robert Sanders
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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1 week 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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1 week ago |
phys.org | Robert Sanders
Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter—half of the 15% of the universe's matter that is not dark matter—cannot be accounted for in the glowing stars and gas we see.
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1 week ago |
news.berkeley.edu | Robert Sanders
Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter — stars, galaxies and gas — in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter — half of the 15% of the universe’s matter that is not dark matter — cannot be accounted for in the glowing stars and gas we see.
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4 weeks ago |
news.berkeley.edu | Robert Sanders
Seven UC Berkeley faculty members from a broad range of fields are among the 2024 class of fellows elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals.
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1 month ago |
news.berkeley.edu | Robert Sanders
VIDEOUC Berkeley biologists and engineers teamed up to discover how squirrels are able to land and balance on a narrow branch, and then apply what they learned to the design of a robot, Salto, that can also stick a landing. (Video produced by Patrick Farrell.
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