The Animal Kingdom’s Otherworldly Ancestors
Hurdia. (COPYRIGHT QUADE PAUL) We’re all descended from sea sponges. At one time, the squishy invertebrates constituted most of the animal life on Earth, but about half a billion years ago, something...
View ArticleComets May Have Delivered Life’s Early Building Blocks
NASA The building blocks of life on Earth may have originated in space. Chemists at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Hawaii, Manoa have found the complex compounds...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Students Build 3D Printing Vending Machine
The first fully automated 3D printing vending machine is open for business at UC Berkeley’s Etcheverry Hall. In the background, Richard Berwick, Dreambox co-founder and chief technology officer, makes...
View ArticleThe Human Microbiome: A Rogue’s Gallery
Scientists are starting to get a handle on what kinds of microbes live in the human body and, roughly, how those populations differ from one individual to another. A key question now is whether there...
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