Amid the amazing biodiversity of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi lives a 5-gram frog that gives direct birth to tadpoles, without ever laying eggs. This unique reproductive strategy, found in a group of fanged frogs endemic to the island, is described for the first time by UC Berkeley herpetologist Jim McGuire and colleagues from Indonesia and Canada.
Berkeley physicist Steve Boggs leads a new gamma-ray experiment launched over Antarctica on Dec. 28 aboard the first of NASA’s new ‘super pressure’ balloons, which aim to keep experiments aloft for more than 100 days. The experiment, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), searches for polarized gamma rays from exploding stars and other cosmic phenomena.
From the increased legalization of marijuana for medical use to the Ebola epidemic to the re-emergence of nearly vanquished infectious diseases preventable by vaccines, 2014 has had more than its share of major public-health stories. Berkeley Wellness offers its list of the Top 10.
Marked by a monthlong celebration of the Free Speech Movement and the unveiling of plans for an ambitious new Berkeley Global Campus, 2014 at UC Berkeley was both a year to remember and a time to reimagine the future.
On Saturday, after months of controversy surrounding keynote speaker Bill Maher, the stars of the show were the nearly 500 graduating seniors receiving their diplomas in Haas Pavilion.
UC Natural Reserve System gets $1.9 million for climate change research
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