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.
July 11, 2025
July 11, 2025 —
Several N3AS researchers, including from UC San Diego, have shown how collapsing massive stars can act as a "neutrino collider,” which may result in either a neutron star remnant or black hole remnant, depending on the “flavor” of the neutrinos.
June 9, 2025
June 9, 2025 —
During embryonic development, thousands of cells divide and move as one. Understanding the mechanisms that coordinate this collective behavior remains a significant challenge in biology and the physics of living systems. Researchers from UC San Diego have discovered that avian embryos control their