Taking a big step toward lowering the power use and heat generation of today's electronics, engineers at UC Berkeley have shown that it is possible to reduce the minimum voltage necessary to store a charge in a capacitor by using ferroelectric materials. > Read the full article... |
With pedal-powered rock music and one-of-a-kind bicycles, Berkeley students staged a festival to kick off a yearlong campaign to promote cycling as the campus commute option of choice. A fall counterpoint to spring's Bike to Work Day, the Campus Bike Initiative hopes to get 420 students, staff and faculty out of their cars.
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On the 100th anniversary of the making of the Yahi survivor's historic "wood duck" recording, a daylong conference at UC Berkeley dedicated itself to correcting the record about Ishi, and to remembering him as an educator, a pioneer and a man.
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