A new discovery by a Backyard Worlds team of citizen scientists and international astrophysicists, including researchers from UC San Diego, shows that about 100 cool brown dwarfs, never before observed, are in residence in the solar community.
Inspired by a commitment to ‘paying it forward,’ the Ong Family has made a gift of $2 million to support the educational needs and priorities of UC San Diego’s School of Medicine.
What are the boundaries of natural selection? Research published in PNAS shows that even natural selection has a tough time optimizing performance simultaneously across multiple components of the cell. They call the concept "evolutionary stalling."
The University of California San Diego has been named the fourth best public university in the United States for the second consecutive year by the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
A series of simulations using multiple supercomputers, including Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, suggests that when the neutron stars’ masses are different enough, the result is far noisier, making them easier to detect.
Women in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry are taking bold steps toward increased balance and fairness on campus.
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