February 27, 2020
…contaminants in the water change the genetic behavior of 2,000 different strains of bacteria. E. coli hotel In this bacteria-driven water testing system, each strain of bacteria lives inside its own small chamber, and all 2,000 strains are lined up in the same chip made of a hard translucent material.…
May 2, 2019
…scales, from understanding how climate change is affecting ecosystems and individual species to identifying the fundamental mechanisms by which organisms develop from a fertilized egg and the mechanisms by which our brains encode spatial information. Fundamental biology impacts so many things that are happening on earth, including natural ecosystems and…
June 6, 2019
…how our world is changing,” Munguia said. “And I love that I can put environmental and aerospace engineering together in that way.” Munguia with a model of the Curiosity Mars Rover at NASA JPL. Photo by Jocelyn Letona. She recently received a Brooke Owens Fellowship for extraordinary undergraduate women in…
December 6, 2011
…aspects of chemical physics, climate change, greenhouse gases, and the formation of the solar system. The scientific foundations of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, Thiemens said, were thermodynamics and physical chemistry, symbolized by the steam engine. The foundations of the 20th century—the Information Revolution—are quantum mechanics and information theory, symbolized by…
May 26, 2022
…Track and Understand these Changes The Coastal Process Group at Scripps Instiution of Oceanography deploys a drone to conduct a LiDAR survey. Photo by Erik Jepsen/University Communications. Advanced imaging and geotechnical technology are powering understanding of our coastline and its hazards The cliff-top parking lot was fenced off and the…
September 12, 2024
Of the first five U.S. states to implement food waste bans, only Massachusetts was successful at diverting waste away from landfills and incinerators, according to a new study from the University of California Rady School of Management.
August 13, 2020
…Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Climate (VC-EDIC) in the chemistry and biochemistry department. “It will advance our longstanding commitment to inclusive graduate education, exemplified through various current and past training grants, including the U.S. Department of Education’s GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Needs) Fellowship Program. At UC San Diego,…
April 17, 2017
George R. R. Martin, author of the series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” adapted on HBO as “Game of Thrones,” will visit the University of California San Diego May 1 and 2 to help raise funds for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Martin is a former…
September 26, 2013
Three research organizations at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a multi-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure to perform real-time data-driven assessment, simulation, prediction, and visualization of wildfire behavior.
November 18, 2019
An international team of researchers, including scientists from UC San Diego, identified the number of molecules it takes to turn water into ice, solving a decades-old chemistry mystery.
