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• Group fights plan to cut eucalyptuses

  - 2007-10-01

  A huge swath of land in the East Bay hills will be little more than tree stumps and wood chips if the University of California, Berkeley gets approval to cut down 23,000 eucalyptus trees, according to a new group formed to fight the fire-safety plan. The Hills...

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• Slowing down light.(speed up network communication)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-11-01

  In a nod to scientific paradox, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have slowed light down in an effort to speed up network communication. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The researchers have shown for the first time that the group velocity...

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• SpaceDev Begins Testing CHIPSat Flat Sat.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-10-01

  SpaceDev, a commercial space exploration and development company, announced it has begun testing the "Flat Sat" version of CHIPSat, NASA's first University Explorer microsatellite. SpaceDev, which specializes in sophisticated microsatellites, designed and is building CHIPSat for Dr. Mark Hurwitz of the University of California at ...

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