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UC San Diego Signs On to Study Cosmos with Massive New Telescope in South America

Science & Environment

On behalf of collaborators at institutions world-wide, UC San Diego recently signed a contract for the design and construction of a state-of-the-art millimeter wave telescope for the Simons Observatory. The telescope is the first of several which will be located in the high Atacama Desert of Northern Chile in 2020. At an elevation of 5,200 meters—or 17,000 feet—above sea level, it’s an ideal location to survey the universe. As part of the Simons Observatory team of researchers from 35 member institutions, UC San Diego Department of Physics’ Professor Brian Keating and Assistant Professor Kam Arnold will have access to this instrument to study Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

rendering of the unique and powerful radio telescope.

Less Than Skin Deep: Humans Can Feel Molecular Differences Between Nearly Identical Surfaces

Business & Economics

How sensitive is the human sense of touch? Sensitive enough to feel the difference between surfaces that differ by just a single layer of molecules, a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has shown.

Less Than Skin Deep: Humans Can Feel Molecular Differences Between Nearly Identical Surfaces

UC San Diego Health Honored for Providing High-Quality Care to Medicare Advantage Patients

Business & Economics

UC San Diego Health recognized with top scores for providing high-quality care to Medicare Advantage patients by the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a statewide nonprofit group committed to high-value, integrated care that improves quality and affordability for patients across California and the nation.

UC San Diego Health Honored for Providing High-Quality Care to Medicare Advantage Patients

Computer scientists develop a simple tool to tell if websites suffered a data breach

Science & Environment

Computer scientists have built and successfully tested a tool designed to detect when websites are hacked by monitoring the activity of email accounts associated with them. The researchers were surprised to find that almost 1 percent of the websites they tested had suffered a data breach during their 18-month study period, regardless of how big the companies' reach and audience are.

Researchers Find Common Psychological Traits in Group of Italians Aged 90 to 101

Health & Behavior

In remote Italian villages nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and mountains lives a group of several hundred citizens over the age of 90. Researchers at the University of Rome La Sapienza and University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified common psychological traits in members of this group.

Researchers Find Common Psychological Traits in Group of Italians Aged 90 to 101

Drug Suppresses Spread of Breast Cancer Caused by Stem-like Cells

Health & Behavior

Rare stem-like tumor cells play a critical role in the spread of breast cancer, but a vulnerability in the pathway that powers them offers a strategy to target these cells using existing drugs before metastatic disease occurs, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center researchers.