The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows it to slip with little effort, according to a new study by Berkeley, seismologists.
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Sun and Moon Trigger Tremors on San Andreas Fault
Astronomers Make Important Planetary Discovery
Planet hunters have detected an extrasolar planet that is only four times the mass of Earth. Berkeley astronomer Andrew Howard, who announced the find, called this a "remarkable discovery." Such planets give important insight on planetary formation and may have the best potential to host life.
Five Berkeley Academics Among New AAAS fellows
Three faculty members in the College of Letters and Sciences and two other UC Berkeley academics have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.
Discovery of 'Ardi' Named Breakthrough of the Year
The journal Science has named the discovery of "Ardi," the oldest hominid skeleton ever found, its "Breakthrough of the Year 2009." The discovery of the 4.4 million-year-old fossil was reporter in October by an international team co-led by UC Berkeley's Tim White, a professor of integrative biology.
H1N1 Adopted New Strategy to Move from Birds to Humans
Researchers in Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology report that the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus adopted a mutation distinct from the mutations found in previous flu viruses, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier and become virulent.
Do We Have an Empathy Gene?
Berkeley researchers have found compelling evidence that some people are born more empathetic than others, with those who are more empathetic possessing a particular variation of the oxytocin receptor gene.
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