In honor of Veterans Day, UC San Diego Today spoke to two student veterans who shared how they came to UC San Diego, the support they found at the Student Veterans Resource Center, and the advice they have for other veterans pursuing higher education.
UCSD researchers have resolved a paradox in polariton chemistry: calculations indicated that dark modes should greatly outnumber active polaritons, making it impossible for light-matter coupling to influence chemistry. Using microscopy, they found the number of dark modes much lower than estimated
The ocean has been absorbing carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions at an increasing rate since 1990, while the net uptake of carbon by forests, soils and other land ecosystems has not grown, according to a new study led by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
A technology that allows drugs to control when cells produce therapeutic proteins could potentially make gene therapies safer and more adaptable for treating chronic diseases.
David Victor explains why we are building far less high-voltage transmission than we need – and what it will take to fix that.
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It's fall, and the arts are calling. Explore world-premiere theatre and dance performances, film screenings, chamber music concerts, fused-glass workshops and more through ArtsConnect, the university's hub for creative experiences.
Over the past decade, the dining scene at UC San Diego has exploded, with a variety of new restaurants opening each year. That trend continues as several new restaurants debut this fall and in the months to come.
The Revive & Survive San Diego initiative reached its goal of training 1 million people in hands-only CPR, turning bystanders into lifesavers. Tim Winter’s collapse near Mission Beach and rescue by a bandmate shows why seconds matter — and how one CPR-trained person can change everything.
“Young adults are disproportionately choosing high-nicotine products, including within the same brands used by older adults, and that use is associated with substantially greater nicotine dependence. ”
“We are at a Copernican moment where we are questioning the very notion of whether general intelligence is uniquely human.”
“For researchers, the search for life beyond Earth is a serious scientific question with profound implications.”
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