Atmospheric River Storms Create $1 Billion-a-Year Flood Damage
December 4, 2019
Atmospheric rivers pose a $1 billion-a-year flood risk in the West, according to a study released today.
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Driven by Realities of Climate Change, Composer Lei Liang Receives Classical Music’s Top Honor
December 2, 2019
UC San Diego professor and world-renowned composer Lei Liang wins the 2020 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his orchestral work that both evokes the realities of climate change and offers the enduring potential for healing.
SDSC, Wisconsin University IceCube Center Conduct GPU Cloudburst Experiment
November 19, 2019
SDSC and the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) successfully completed a computational experiment as part of a multi-institution collaboration that marshalled all globally available for sale GPUs (graphics processing units) across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google.
UC San Diego Named Nation’s 6th Best Public University by U.S. News and World Report
October 22, 2019
The University of California San Diego has been named the nation’s sixth best public university, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Best Global Universities.
Using Machine Learning to Hunt Down Cybercriminals
October 9, 2019
MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at SDSC have developed a new machine learning system to identify "serial hijackers" of internet IP addresses.
Cracking How ‘Water Bears’ Survive the Extremes
October 1, 2019
Scientists have gained a new understanding of how ultra-resilient tardigrades, or “water bears,” are protected in extreme conditions. The researchers discovered that a protein named Dsup binds and forms a protective cloud against extreme survival threats such as radiation damage.
Biologists Untangle Growth and Defense in Maize, Define Key Antibiotic Pathways
September 18, 2019
Studying natural defenses in maize, a staple of diets around the world, UC San Diego biologists describe how they combined an array of scientific approaches to clearly define six genes that encode enzymes responsible for the production of key maize antibiotics known to control disease resistance.
Supercomputer Simulations Help Optimize Floating Wind Farms
September 18, 2019
Researchers used SDSC's Comet supercomputer to better understand the wake effects of large floating wind farm arrays, which have become more prevalent in recent years.
NSF Awards SDSC and Partners $5.9 Million to Host EarthCube Office
September 3, 2019
The NSF has awarded SDSC and its partners a three-year, $5.9 million grant to host the EarthCube Office as part of the ongoing NSF-funded EarthCube program.
Supercomputers Pave the Way for New Machine Learning Approach
August 29, 2019
Researchers at SDSC, LANL, and UNC Chapel Hill have developed a machine learning approach called transfer learning that lets them model novel materials by learning from data collected about millions of other compounds.
