In my new issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley:
* Nanoscience’s Master Mechanic: Physics professor Alex Zettl built a conveyor belt for ferrying atoms, the world’s smallest nanomotor, and an oscillator based on drops of liquid metal that weight just one-quadrillionth of a gram.* Glowing Research on Brain Diseases: Novel optical probes that may shed light on how neurodegenerative diseases slowly devastate the brain.
* Weathering Climate Variability: Lynn Ingram is a paleoclimatologist who looks at California’s weather forecasts from 10,000 years ago.
