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University of California love experts chat with Science Today host, Larissa Branin, about the science behind romance. Originally broadcast as a Facebook Live video, this is the audio version of UC Berkeley psychologists and neurologists Arthur Aron, Robert Levenson and Emiliana Simon-Thomas discussing the drug-like effects of budding romance, and how that differs from the psychology and brain chemistry at work in a long-term relationship.

Sorry - it’s been a while since we’ve posted. Here’s a roundup of what’s been going on, though.

The mental health of aging adults seems to consistently improve with age. But in the same study of adults ages 21 to 100, researchers discovered that those in their 20s and 30s had far worse levels of psychological well-being than any other period of adulthood. Have a listen ... 

As many of us are set to gather around the table for #Thanksgiving, this seems like a good time to remind everyone that giving thanks should be a year-round practice. We chatted with a leading UC Riverside positive psychologist and author about this.

We interview a lot of researchers at the University of California, and one thing we hear about a lot is how beneficial it is for researchers to have students and interdisciplinary faculty at their fingertips.

One of the current limitations of commercial 3D printers on the market is the lack of material that’s being used. Mostly it’s thermoplastics, like ABS. So what researchers would like to do is expand the materials used to fabricate devices or functional materials. So, engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory teamed up with UC Santa Cruz to do just that. What they came up with was a novel, ultra-lightweight graphene aerogel. Have a listen!

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It's one thing to hear researchers describe 3D printing technology, but it's quite another to actually see it in action. Here at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory we filmed the production of a 3D supercapacitor that uses an ultra-lightweight graphene aerogel. This scene will be part of a larger series about how the University of California’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative is leading the way to mitigate #climatechange by improving its energy efficiency, developing new sources of renewable energy and enacting a range of related strategies to cut carbon emissions.