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Now Showing: Medicinal Chemistry in 3D

January 3, 2020

UC San Diego’s Seth Cohen and his research team, including colleagues at Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum led by Nils Metzler-Nolte, used a new type of metal-based molecular building block to serve as the basis for developing new therapeutic drugs. Their work is published in Chemical Science.

Quenching Water Scarcity with a Good Pore

December 11, 2019

Researchers from UC San Diego and MIT achieved impressive agreement between theory and experiment, shedding light on how water interacts with MOFs and moving closer to developing materials that address global water scarcity.

Researchers ‘Handed’ $4M to Boot-Up Mirror Cell Synthesis

December 10, 2019

With a new grant of $4 million from the National Science Foundation, UC San Diego’s Neal Devaraj and Yale University’s Farren Isaacs are launching new research that will help assess the risks and rewards of mirror life.

Mystery of the Origins of Cosmic Rays Solved

December 9, 2019

UC San Diego’s Richard Lingenfelter, a research physicist emeritus at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, confirms the source of the universe’s cosmic rays—the most energetic particles known.

Quantitative Biology Opens Trail to Ecological Exploration, Evolutionary Prediction

November 6, 2019

Scientists thought they knew everything there was to know about how and why bacterial cells moved around, but back-to-back articles in Nature by UC San Diego’s Terence Hwa reveal how little they understood bacteria movement en masse.

Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out of Galaxy

October 30, 2019

Researchers from UC San Diego and Rhodes College find direct evidence for the first time of the role of galactic winds in creating the circumgalactic medium.

Riding the Third Wave of AI without Quantum Computing

October 22, 2019

UC San Diego Theoretical Physicist Max Di Ventra is catching the next wave of cutting-edge AI with an alternative platform he calls “memcomputing,” which doesn’t require quantum capabilities.

Trailblazing Astronomer Margaret Burbidge Turns 100 Years Old

October 10, 2019

Space. The proverbial final frontier. “These are the voyages” of new centenarian and renowned astronomer Margaret Burbidge. Her mission to understand the stuff stars are made of has taken her boldly where no woman has gone before …

Exploding Shells Boost Immune Response to Brain Cancer

September 17, 2019

Researchers at the University of California San Diego figured out a way to combine FDA-approved ultrasound with engineered glass particles to boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy in glioblastomas.

Wired to Think

September 16, 2019

UC San Diego neurophysics research supplies a blueprint for a future generation of electrode sensors that utilizes existing yet nontraditional materials and fabrication procedures to record electrical signals from every neuron in the cortex of the brain—at the same time.
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