News Archive - Cynthia Dillon

Chemists, Physicists Create Spongy Droplets to Mimic Cellular Organelles

With a bottom-up approach to synthetic biology, UC San Diego Chemist Neal Devaraj, Physicist Sunil Sinha and a team of researchers showed that lipid sponge droplets can be programmed to function like cellular organelles.

Band of Astronomers Finds Low Heavy Metal in Brown Dwarf Discoveries

Astronomers in UC San Diego’s Cool Star Lab, directed by Adam Burgasser, have contributed to the discovery of two unusual brown dwarfs containing atypical amounts of heavy elements in their atmospheres.

Researchers Turn Algae Leftovers into Renewable Products with Flare

Researchers takes waste products from algae-based omega-3 oil production and converts them into valuable and renewable polyurethane foams with all kinds of commercial applications—from flip-flops and running shoe soles, to mattresses and yoga mats.

Researchers Turn Algae Leftovers into Renewable Products with Flare

Researchers takes waste products from algae-based omega-3 oil production and converts them into valuable and renewable polyurethane foams with all kinds of commercial applications—from flip-flops and running shoe soles, to mattresses and yoga mats.

‘Molecular Distancing’ Presents Pathway to Remote Chemical Reactions

UC San Diego chemists find way to artificially make molecules in solution exchange vibrational energy at room temperature, challenging the current paradigm in chemistry. Details of their discovery are published in Science.

Physicists Go Out on a Limb to Advance AI Computing

UC San Diego research team uses quantum materials to create “neural trees” that mimic brain synapses

Researchers Make Gemstones with Salty, Soapy Water for the First Time

Collaborators from the University of California San Diego and New York University used salt, soap and water to make “bling” with a proposed novel experiment by UC San Diego’s Jérémie Palacci to form ionic colloidal crystals from common colloids.

Scientists Observe Superconductivity in Meteorites

Scientists at UC San Diego and Brookhaven Laboratory in New York investigated a diverse population of meteorites. Among the 15 pieces of comets and asteroids studied, they found two with superconductive grains.

Astronomers Catch Rare Eclipse of a Double Brown Dwarf System

Astronomers working on “first light” data from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipse of two brown dwarfs. The result published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.