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The second-class workers behind China's urban construction boom
Behind the rapid modernization of China, powerfully symbolized by the architectural wonders of the Beijing Olympics, are millions of migrant construction laborers from rural villages, working for low wages and outside the protection of Chinese labor laws. Public policy /
State Senate committee passes bill to protect researchers engaged in animal research
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New book distills essential physics for next president
Physicist Richard A. Muller has transformed his popular course, "Physics for Future Presidents," into a popular book of the same name, providing a tutorial in the physics of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, terrorism and global warming essential for anyone aspiring to the Oval Office. International /
Q&A: Professor M. Steven Fish comments on Russian-Georgian conflict
With tensions still mounting in the continuing violent conflict between Russia and Georgia, UC Berkeley political science professor M. Steven Fish fields questions about the prospects for peace in the region and impact on the conflict of U.S. presidential politics. Environment /
Dying frogs a sign of biodiversity crisis
Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just frogs, salamanders and their ilk, according to UC Berkeley researchers. They argue that substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet. People /
Neil Bartlett, emeritus professor of chemistry, dies at 75
Neil Bartlett, professor emeritus and a pioneering chemist, died unexpectedly Aug. 5 from an aortic aneurysm. He was best known for his critical experiment in 1962 demonstrating that xenon, a member of the family of noble gases, could form compounds. Nanoscience /
Invisibility shields one step closer with new metamaterials that bend light backwards
UC Berkeley scientists have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development that could help form the basis for higher resolution optical imaging, nanocircuits for high-powered computers, and, to the delight of science-fiction and fantasy buffs, cloaking devices that could render objects invisible to the human eye. Also: New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications
Longtime UC administrator Robert D. Grey named interim system provost
Football: Cal concludes its double-day session on Monday
