May 16, 2011
…particularly American Sign Language (ASL), and she has explored ways in which language forms are created, propagated, and conventionalized in natural environments. More… Nicholas Spitzer Nicholas Spitzer is a professor in the Division of Biological Sciences. He has studied activity-dependent regulation of expression of serotonin and dopamine in the embryonic…
November 9, 2023
Women produce physiological data that is just as predictable as men, at least when it comes to skin temperature. This might seem like common sense, but variations in body signals due to menstrual cycles, such as temperature, were used as an excuse to keep women out of clinical studies for…
March 7, 2013
…weight, when we fall asleep and wake up, how likely we are to have accidents and how we respond to disease. There is no single function in human biology that is affected by the clock; rather, essentially all physiological process are timed, and when the timing of one process is…
October 19, 2017
University of California San Diego anthropology professor Thomas E. Levy is back in San Diego after participating in the fourth International Conference on Dialogue of Civilizations, held in Ahmedabad, India and co-organized by the National Geographic Society (NGS), Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and India’s Ministry of Culture.
February 9, 2024
Scientists hope to advance precision medicine through the discovery of a gene variant that leads to the same phenotype in separate high-dwelling populations while taking a different evolutionary path.
April 20, 2023
For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea.
June 14, 2018
…or they’ll fall back asleep, only to have it happen again a few seconds later. As a result of this intermittent airway collapse, the body is exposed to low oxygen and high carbon dioxide conditions, and people with the condition are more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases down the road.…
January 18, 2018
…Music presents Michael Pisaro’s “asleep, forest, melody, path.” A rich work scored for six specific sites in the region, famed percussionist and UC San Diego alumnus Greg Stuart returns to campus to lead this concert dubbed “a portrait of our city and the people who call it home.” Themes of…
August 3, 2023
A new study from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography uses a multidisciplinary approach to unravel the complexities of the two deadly earthquakes of nearly equal strength that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, 2023.
June 13, 2011
…while we’re all home asleep. We took the idea of a free dinner held at night, usually after 10 p.m., to the Chancellor and Steve Relyea, who was our advisor at the time. Both supported the idea and offered funding. Giving our night staff a dinner once a year makes…
