Featured image: When they hear the word “scientist”, most people envision a white male—but as research topics become more diverse, so does the face of science. Photo by Jiri Navratil (Own work)  via Wikimedia Commons. I am a physics graduate student, a woman, and an Asian American. When I look at the 52 other
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Jo Downes Bairzin It’s a familiar question to many of us in graduate school: what am I doing with my life? One might think that a bunch of PhD trainees in their 20s and 30s would have figured that out already, but if anything, grad school makes the question even more pressing. How many of
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Size matters. The proton, for instance, has a radius a tad less than one femtometer—one billionth of one millionth of a meter. Figuring out exactly how much less than one femtometer the proton’s radius is has stirred up one of the greatest controversies in all of modern physics, one we deem the “proton radius puzzle”.
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The Spring issue of the Berkeley Science Review is here! We’re very excited to have articles on a huge variety of topics this issue, from the search for intelligent aliens to antihydrogen. Check it out!
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For many organisms, everything needed for growth and metabolism is confined neatly within a single entity: the cell, fundamental unit of life. Many single-celled organisms wade through the world in solitude, but the story is quite different for organisms made up of many cells, including ourselves. Our cells sense and respond to their environment—and they
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In the November 2016 election, voters in California approved Proposition 67, banning grocery and other stores from providing single-use plastic bags to consumers. Stores offering recycled paper bags or reusable bags now must charge at least 10 cents per bag. Environmental groups spent millions in support of the ban, and it seems like a clear-cut
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