Inside an abandoned South Dakota gold mine, the world's most sensitive experimental search for dark matter has gotten 20 times more sensitive. New techniques reduce background interference with efforts to catch these mysterious particles, known as WIMPs, which comprise 85 percent of all matter in the universe.
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When the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive reopens at its new downtown location on Jan. 31, the campus visual arts center will feature wooden furnishings revived from a previous life by a local master craftsman, ordained Zen Buddhist priest and designer of Buddhist temples.
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The dynamism of life at Berkeley in 2015 is captured in our top nine videos of the year - BANDALOOP aerial dancers on the Campanile, seismologists unlocking the earth's secrets, reflections on time in solitary confinement, a champion swimmer and an unusual octopus. They were produced by videographers Roxanne Makasdjian, Stephen McNally and Phil Ebiner.
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