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In parallel mouse studies, researchers fail to replicate many reported effects of psilocybin: In a unique series of identical experiments, five labs dosed mice with the psychedelic drug psilocybin to see which behavioral effects are reproducible

3 days ago news.berkeley.edu neuroscience psilocybin

On complex political issues, most Americans take shortcuts to simplicity

26 days ago news.berkeley.edu

A global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible, says new report

26 days ago news.berkeley.edu ai

To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own

34 days ago news.berkeley.edu chemistry

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things

26 days ago news.berkeley.edu ai

New study links deep-sleep loss to Alzheimer’s-related protein buildup

51 days ago news.berkeley.edu neuroscience

How tiny balls of human brain tissue are revealing the causes of childhood epilepsy — and possible treatments

40 days ago news.berkeley.edu brain epilepsy neuroscience

The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history

36 days ago news.berkeley.edu earth

A new genomic language AI model, GPN-Star, outperforms existing models in identifying genetic variants associated with inherited traits, including variants linked to disease.

51 days ago news.berkeley.edu ai disease genetics

New weight loss and diabetes treatment helps burn fat while keeping muscle

2 months ago news.berkeley.edu diabetes medicine

New antioxidant formulation targets UVA-induced skin damage during gel nail curing

4 months ago news.berkeley.edu chemistry

New fossil site suggests flowering plants were already thriving 10 million years before the dinosaur extinction

4 months ago news.berkeley.edu paleontology

A breakthrough in electron microscopy delivers sharper images of body's proteins

4 months ago news.berkeley.edu physics

Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats

4 months ago news.berkeley.edu paleontology

New proof-of-concept device created by researchers could transform how food safety hazards are detected

4 months ago news.berkeley.edu engineering

Researchers find warming temperatures could increase dengue fever risk in California

4 months ago news.berkeley.edu california environment

Biologists found that sunbirds do use suction to slurp nectar, making them the first animals known to employ their tongues to suction up liquids.

6 months ago news.berkeley.edu biology

One-of-a-kind experiment tracked plant evolution in response to climate change at 30 sites worldwide

6 months ago news.berkeley.edu biology

Lightning bolts on Jupiter pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s flashes

7 months ago news.berkeley.edu astronomy earth

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar — a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star — and confirmed that it’s the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the cosmos.

7 months ago news.berkeley.edu astronomy

Urine tests confirm alcohol consumption in wild African chimps

8 months ago news.berkeley.edu biology

Researchers reconstructed emissions from Swedish wildfires and found that current climate estimates are failing to fully account for carbon released from smoldering organic soils.

8 months ago news.berkeley.edu environment release

SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

9 months ago news.berkeley.edu

A study finds that one microbe, a member of the Archaea, tolerates a little flexibility in interpreting the genetic code, contradicting a 60-year-old doctrine.

11 months ago news.berkeley.edu biology genetics

Study finds that parasitic worms rely on static electricity to find prey in midair

12 months ago news.berkeley.edu biology

Genetic study of nomadic herders in Kenya shows what it takes to adapt to desert living

13 months ago news.berkeley.edu genetics

The first-ever measurements of the ethanol content of fruits available to chimpanzees in their native African habitat show that the animals could easily consume the equivalent of more than two standard alcoholic drinks each day

13 months ago news.berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency.

14 months ago news.berkeley.edu ai engineering

Is the ‘love hormone,’ oxytocin, also the ‘friendship hormone’: « A UC Berkeley study found social prairie voles lacking the receptor for oxytocin are slow to form friendships and less aggressive toward unfamiliar peers

14 months ago news.berkeley.edu biology

Researchers have identified a set of genes in zebrafish that reactivate after damage to the heart and patch it up like new

16 months ago news.berkeley.edu genetics

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