New study suggests that biases for those with more resources can be traced to beliefs formed as young as 14 months.

Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California's Mono Lake

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.

Size of tropical glaciers at lowest point in at least 11,000 years

UC Berkeley researchers have created earpieces that identify brain activity associated with relaxation and drowsiness.

New study shows how the brain reacts emotionally to the real world

Virgin Galactic Flies 3D Printer Into Space. Its Next Mission: Bioprinting on the ISS

Engineered plants could bridge the nutrition gap between breast milk and baby formula

Lactate rivals glucose as body's major fuel after a carbohydrate meal

An adjuvant made in yeast could lower vaccine cost and boost availability

Why parrots sometimes adopt — or kill — each other’s babies

EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint

Tests begin on sensitive neutrino detector for nonproliferation as well as physics

New research concludes that the heat index — essentially how hot it really feels — has increased much faster in Texas than has the measured temperature: about three times faster.

What bats can teach us about the evolution of human speech

Wildfire smoke disproportionately affects California's Indigenous communities, new research shows

UC Berkeley research suggests that constant stress triggered by clumping proteins is killing brain cells.

Retrotransposons found in the genomes of the white-throated sparrow and the zebra finch are shown to safely shepherd transgenes into the human genome, providing a gene therapy approach complementary to CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.

Sparrows uniquely adapted to Bay Area marshes are losing their uniqueness

Pacific kelp forests are far older than we thought

A genetic analysis of bone fragments unearthed at an archaeological site in central Germany shows conclusively that modern humans — Homo sapiens — had already reached Northern Europe 45,000 years ago, overlapping with Neanderthals for several thousand years before the latter went extinct.

Evidence for huge underwater eruption 500,000 years ago, part of a still-active volcanic arc in the Aegean

Formaldehyde, a carcinogen, is also used by the body to regulate our genes

Twenty-year study confirms California forests are healthier when burned — or thinned

Innovative design achieves better resolution for functional MRI brain imaging

How to use AI for discovery — without leading science astray

Hummingbirds' unique sideways flutter gets them through small apertures

Webb telescope discovers intense jet stream in Jupiter’s atmosphere

Closest supernova in a decade reveals how exploding stars evolve

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