October 16, 2025
October 16, 2025 —
Scientists have long wanted to get a closer look at the movement of lipids around a cell, but it’s tough to visualize with traditional light microscopy. UC San Diego researchers have unveiled a new technology with the power to see cells in unprecedented detail.
October 9, 2025
October 9, 2025 —
UC San Diego researchers show that light-matter hybrids, known as polaritons, not only behave optically, but also quantumly.
October 2, 2025
October 2, 2025 —
Phosphine has been found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, and has been recognized as a possible biosignature for anaerobic life. Now a team of researchers, led by UC San Diego, has reported the detection of phosphine in the atmosphere of a cool, ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C.
September 26, 2025
September 26, 2025 —
Three chemistry professors - Seth Cohen, Joshua Figueroa and Akif Tezcan - all started their careers at UC San Diego. Twenty years on, they have – yes, we have to say it – a unique chemistry in and out of the lab.
September 18, 2025
September 18, 2025 —
UC San Diego chemistry professor Joel Yuen-Zhou doesn’t fit neatly into a box and neither does his work. He was born and raised in Mexico City to Chinese immigrants. As a theoretical physical chemist, he uses physics, math and chemistry to manipulate the properties of photons.
September 11, 2025
September 11, 2025 —
Turbulence is notoriously difficult to forecast. UC San Diego researchers have predicted that if a pipe is sufficiently curved, the transition can become discontinuous, with the turbulent fraction undergoing a jump beyond a critical flow velocity.
August 21, 2025
August 21, 2025 —
In a new study, researchers from UC San Diego designed experiments to show how disordered energy can limit the energy transfer pathway of polaritons, and further demonstrated a strategy to overcome this limitation.
August 13, 2025
August 13, 2025 —
Omega fatty acids are important to human health, but deviations in their positions can signal malfunctions or pathological processes, such as those occurring in cancer . Researchers from UC San Diego have presented a new computational method to determine omega positions of lipids.
July 17, 2025
July 17, 2025 —
Today, scientists work to develop synthetic cells that mimic living cells, hoping to uncover clues that will help answer the question: how did life on Earth begin? Now researchers from tUC San Diego have designed a system that synthesizes cell membranes and incorporates metabolic activity.