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Award-Winning SeedMeLab Grows with New Software-as-a-Service

With hundreds of active installations and a new award, SeedMeLab is launching its new Software-as-a-Service to benefit researchers.

UC San Diego Named No. 4 Best Value Public College by The Princeton Review

The University of California San Diego has been ranked fourth among the nation’s top public colleges for students seeking an outstanding education at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges for 2021.

Combining Nanomaterials in 3D to Build Next-Generation Imaging Devices

UC San Diego nanoengineering professor Oscar Vazquez-Mena is taking nanomaterials to the next dimension. By integrating different nanoscale materials together in 3D, he is creating a new generation of devices for environmental monitoring, energy harvesting and biomedical applications.

How Brain Tumors Turn Immune Cells into Cancer-Growing Hostages

Researchers discover that brain cancer tumors reprogram immune cells to help them grow, rather than suppress them.

Airbnb Hosts in College Towns Hike up Prices Game Days to Deter Rival Fans

Airbnb hosts in college towns increase their listing prices much more than hotels when there are home football games against rival teams. Hosts experience a 78 percent reduction in rental income by listing prices too high, according to a new study by the University of California San Diego.

High-Performance Computing Makes a Splash in Water Cycle Science

San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Comet will conclude formal service as an NSF resource and transition to exclusive use by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes.

San Diego Supercomputer Center, Core Scientific Form New Partnership

SDSC’s Expanse platform via Core Scientific’s Plexus software stack offers users a consumption-based, high-performance computing model that solves for on-premise infrastructure and can run HPC workloads in supercomputer centers as well as in any of the major public cloud providers.

New Assessment Examines 10 Reasons Why the Coronavirus Is Airborne

There is consistent, strong evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air, according to a new assessment published April 15 in the medical journal Lancet.

IceCube Neutrino Observatory Detects New High-Energy Particle

In December 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles.

Study Uses Precision Medicine to Speed Drug Testing for Pancreatic Cancer

Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is among the few clinical trial sites in the U.S. for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s (PanCAN) newly created Precision Promise, the first large-scale precision medicine trial designed to transform outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer.