Opening Portals to the Underworld
A photographic exhibition opening the evening of Wednesday, April 24 at the Qualcomm Institute captures caves long-considered by the Maya to be entrances to the underworld.
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How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries.
Catch a Glimpse of the April 8 Solar Eclipse a Little Early via Supercomputer Sims
The much-anticipated April 8 solar eclipse is quickly approaching and a team of researchers from Predictive Science Inc. has been using the Expanse supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego to continuously update simulations of what the eclipse might look like.
A Deep Dive Into the Genetics of Alcohol Consumption
Some people have genes that protect them from alcohol abuse. An examination of databases at 23andMe reveal that those same alcohol-protective variants have associations with conditions and behaviors that may have nothing to do with alcohol.
Cell Division Quality Control ‘Stopwatch’ Uncovered
UC San Diego biologists have uncovered a quality control timing mechanism tied to cell division. The “stopwatch” function keeps track of mitosis and acts as a protective measure when the process takes too long, preventing the formation of cancerous cells.
Global Warming Is Influencing Global Timekeeping
A problem is coming for global timekeeping, according to a new paper in the journal Nature by Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist Duncan Agnew, and global warming is influencing when that problem might arrive.
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