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California’s Winter Waves May Be Increasing Under Climate Change

A new study from UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher emeritus Peter Bromirski uses nearly a century of data to show that the average heights of winter waves along the California coast have increased as climate change has heated up the planet.

UC San Diego Health Ranks No. 1 in San Diego, Makes National Honor Roll

U.S. News & World Report ranks 10 medical and surgical specialties at UC San Diego Health among the nation’s best.

A Scalable Approach to Building and Updating Phylogenies

A team of researchers led by Metin Balaban and Siavash Mirarab at UC San Diego have developed a more scalable method to infer phylogenetic trees. Their work appears in Nature Biotechnology.

This 3D Printed Gripper Doesn’t Need Electronics To Function

This soft robotic gripper is not only 3D printed in one print, it also doesn’t need any electronics to work. The device was developed by a team of roboticists at UC San Diego, in collaboration with researchers at the BASF corporation.

New Resource Harmonizes 16S and Shotgun Sequencing Data for Microbiome Research

UC San Diego scientists debut Greengenes2, a massive reference database that could be used to reconcile years of microbiome studies.

Across the Universe: UC San Diego Announces New Astronomy and Astrophysics Department

Is there life on other planets? What happened in the earliest days of the universe? What is the nature of dark matter? These are just a few of the grand questions being tackled by the University of California San Diego’s newly formed Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.