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Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot on the planet has ever been observed with a telescope on Earth. These occasional features in the blue background of Neptune’s atmosphere are a mystery to astronomers, and the new results provide further clues as to their nature and origin.

Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and academic researchers have won protections against bullying and abusive workplace conduct in a tentative agreement with the UC system.

Planets with oceans of metallic hydrogen generate magnetic fields and are better able to sustain gaseous atmospheres and harbor life.

About 200 UC Berkeley academic workers rallied Feb. 17 to demand that the university address the housing crisis faced by thousands of its workers.