Scientists Explore Signals for a Quantum Universe
UC San Diego’s Daniel Green set out to find a signal for the quantum origin of structure by applying theoretical techniques used to understand the way particles scatter in colliders.
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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.
Mathematician, Engineer receive Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during COVID-19 Pandemic
Two UC San Diego professors are among 13 Newton Award recipients, out of a pool of 548 applicants, for their vision to study and efficiently simulate complex interconnected systems for long-term analysis.
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.
Supercomputer Simulations Help Researchers Predict Solar Wind Storms
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire and elsewhere used SDSC's Comet supercomputer to validate a model using a machine learning technique called Dynamic Time Lag Regression (DTLR) to help predict the arrival of solar winds near the Earth’s orbit from physical parameters of the Sun.
National Science Foundation Awards SDSC $5 Million to Develop Innovative AI Resource
The NSF has awarded SDSC a $5 million grant to develop a high-performance resource for conducting artificial intelligence (AI) research across a wide swath of science and engineering domains.
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