So much for the empty nest blues. A UC Berkeley study that tracked the relationships of dozens of women has found evidence that marriages improve once the kids have flown the coop.
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Students hunting for internship opportunities and organizations seeking bargain-rate new talent are finding each other online, at a hook-up site launched by three Berkeley undergraduates. With audio
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Broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables have long been known to have anti-cancer benefits, and UC Berkeley researchers have now found out why. The discovery of one target of a chemical found in broccoli will help to design better anti-cancer drugs and to target treatment to specific types of cancer, including late-stage breast and prostate cancers. With recipes
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Due to a heavy server load that frustrated some last-minute applicants, the Dec. 1 deadline for submitting applications and recommendation letters for several graduate programs has been extended.
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Children from well-off families have an inherent advantage over those from poor families, but new research shows an added plus. The brains of kids from low socioeconomic levels show decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex -- which governs attention and deals with novel situations -- compared to the brains of children from high socioeconomic levels.
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Bringing clean tech innovations into the marketplace faster is the purpose of a new partnership launched this fall between scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and students of the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative, an interdisciplinary organization founded by MBA students at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
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While studying for their PhDs in public policy, lawyers Layda Negrete and Roberto Hernández made a film about one man's encounter with Mexico's deeply flawed criminal-justice system. Their documentary, "Presumed Guilty," debuted recently at the 21st International Documentary Film Festival, in Amsterdam, where audiences rated it among their 10 favorite entries; También en español. With video
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Up to 5 percent of the globe's climate-changing carbon dioxide emissions result from manufacturing Portland cement, says engineering doctoral student Cagla Mera. Convinced that cement is far too useful and ubiquitous to ever be replaced, Meral is working to develop a greener form of it.
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UC Berkeley has received $11 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to build a state-of-the-art, high-precision measurement laboratory to study nanoscale and quantum phenomena.
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When Jupiter formed 4.5 billion years ago, rocks and ice combined to form a rocky core 14-18 times the mass of the Earth, according to a new simulation by UC Berkeley geophysicist Burkhard Militzer. This is twice what previous models predicted.
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