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UC Berkeley researchers have discovered a compound that promotes bacterial adhesion on teeth, which can lead to dental plaque and cavities. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Borba (...Read more about A mouth full of microbes: UC Berkeley researchers discover compound that can cause tooth decay

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a new material that could capture more than 90 percent of CO2 emitted from industrial sources, such as natural gas-fired power plants, using low-temperature steam,...Read more about ExxonMobil collaborates on discovery of new material to enhance carbon capture technology

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The Holy Father has appointed as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) Susan...Read more about Alumna Susan Solomon joins Pontifical Academy of Science

Excerpt from biography by F.O. Koenig in Isis, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Autumn, 1942), pp. 142-146

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UC Berkeley business and chemistry alumni Geo Guillen, left, and Marco Lobba, middle, launched Catena Biosciences with Berkeley chemistry professor Matthew Francis. The trio credit Berkeley’s entrepreneurship ecosystem for their company’s rapid rise. (Photo courtesy of Catena...Read more about Berkeley startup aims to be a game changer in autoimmune disease therapy

Atom Computing announced its first-generation 100-atom quantum computer on July 21, 2021. (Image courtesty Atom Computing.)

Quantum computing company Atom Computing, co-founded by...Read more about Atom computing raises M and launches first-generation quantum computer

(l to r) Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, chemist Glenn Seaborg and, physicist Ernest Lawrence in 1946 at the control panel of the 184-Inch Cyclotron.

Historians cite the 'Roaring Twenties' as the decade in which the United States began its transition to a...Read more about The cyclotron's history at Berkeley

Members of the Summer Bridge program preparing to start a lab on "engineering a plastics separation". Photo courtesy of Jade Fostvedt.

An introductory cohort of 13 incoming first-year chemistry students were invited to take part in a new summer chemistry course,...Read more about New Summer Bridge course introduces incoming first-years to chemistry research skills

Norman's photo for the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation award, 1963.

Norman Phillips, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, (1928-2019) was born December 20, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry from the University of British Columbia...Read more about In Memoriam: Norman Edgar Phillips

The carbon–hydrogen bonds in alkanes—particularly those at the ends of the molecules, where each carbon has three hydrogen atoms bound to it—are very hard to “crack” if you want to replace the hydrogen atoms with other atoms. Methane (CH4) and ethane (CH3CH3) are made up, exclusively,...Read more about At Last: Separated and Freshly Bound