AI in warfare: “The technical capability for a system to find a human being and kill them is much easier than to develop a self-driving car. It’s a graduate-student project,” says Stuart Russell, a computer scientist UC Berkeley nature.com/articles/d4158… nature

Congratulations to the 7 UC Berkeley scientists elected today to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/24/sev…

Rooftop #solar is good for households, but it shifts about $2B in costs to other PG&E ratepayers, hence higher bills for those without solar, according to an analysis by Energy Institute at Haas, UC Berkeley buff.ly/3UrCGOe

South Asia is already sweltering with 100+ F temperatures. UC Berkeley climatologists predict the upcoming summer in the tropics will set records for heat and humidity news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/22/rec…

Congratulations to 6 UC Berkeley scientists elected lifetime fellows of AAAS ! news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/18/six… UC Berkeley MCB Berkeley Engineering UC BerkeleySPH Berkeley Lab Space Sciences Laboratory

🤩 Congrats to UC Berkeley mathematician Hannah Larson! Actress Zoe Saldaña presented Dr. Larson with the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize at the 10th annual #BreakthroughPrize Awards ceremony 🌟 Read more: bit.ly/49M1rsK

ICYI: Artificial streams in eastern Sierra mimic early snow melt to determine effect on aquatic species. They seem to be resilient. | UC Berkeley news.berkeley.edu/2024/03/18/wha…

Between 2018 & 2022, electric vehicle use rose and slightly decreased Bay Area carbon emissions. But it's not enough. | UC Berkeley news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/04/evs… College of Chemistry

Bay Area’s adoption of electric cars is reducing emissions, UC Berkeley study says sfchronicle.com/climate/articl… via San Francisco Chronicle

Our team of chemists, led by Christopher Chang & Dean Toste, have devised a novel method to selectively tag tryptophan residues within proteins, potentially leading to the development of new types of drugs & engineered proteins. chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/targeting… UC Berkeley MCB Robert Sanders

Check out this evening's event at the Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California - Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Rob MacCoun on Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-03… UC Berkeley

It started as an undergrad course UC Berkeley. Its popularity proved the need for a popular book on applying science-based reasoning to improve our critical thinking skills in a new century and new millennium. UC Berkeley Stanford University

Need tips on how to navigate today's messy world of misinformation? A new book, 'Third Millennium Thinking,' focuses on using science-based skills to tell sense from nonsense. Little, Brown Spark news.berkeley.edu/2024/03/26/ami… UC Berkeley Stanford University

NASA recently approved a new space telescope - UVEX - that will map the ultraviolet universe, starting in 2030

Space Sciences Laboratory will manage, Caltech will lead survey of low-mass galaxies around the Milky Way news.berkeley.edu/2024/03/25/uc-… UC Berkeley

It's sad to hear of the passing of pioneering UC Berkeley radio astronomer William (Jack) Welch, whose work culminated in the Allen Telescope Array dedicated to #SETI seti.org/astronomer-wil…

With global warming, a few degree rise in temperature during summer heatwaves could feel like an increase of 10 F.

A revised heat index reveals increased heat stress as maximum temperatures and humidity rise. buff.ly/48ZGU3G UC Berkeley David Romps

A hybrid neutrino detector now being tested by UC Berkeley Berkeley Lab could do a better job of detecting elicit nuclear material and be more versatile in studying neutrino physics news.berkeley.edu/2024/03/15/tes… Berkeley Physics

Check out this exciting news about the launch of the new Molecular Therapeutics Initiative! Congrats Dan Nomura, Rapé Lab & Roberto Zoncu for leading the way! 👏

Congratulations to the 5 new recipients of the Bakar Prize UC Berkeley. They're targeting skin disease, spintronics, semiconductor lasers, heavy metal toxicity and tree bark | Bakar Fellows news.berkeley.edu/2024/03/11/202…

Using these 3D apps is like holding a skeleton in your hands. And museums are putting more of them online for scientists, teachers and the public UC Berkeley news.berkeley.edu/2024/03/07/mus…