August 2, 2019
UC San Diego engineers have developed a soft robotic lens whose movements are controlled by the eyes—blink twice and the lens zooms in and out; look left, right, up or down and the lens will follow. The lens is the first example of an interface between humans and soft machines.
July 29, 2020
Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which are more efficient for use in solar cells and optical devices than the current state-of-the-art polycrystalline forms of the material.
July 29, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine are among the contributors to a package of 10 studies in the journal Nature, describing the latest results from the ongoing Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project, a worldwide effort led by the NIH to understand how the human genome functions.
October 12, 2020
Two research teams at UC San Diego School of Medicine sought to understand sedentary lifestyles, with one study finding that even light physical activity, including just standing, can benefit health, and the other that Americans are sitting too much.
February 19, 2021
UC San Diego physicists are discovering details about the fundamental properties of exotic particles known as excitons. Their findings include pinpointing a visual phenomenon tied to a new state of matter as well as the first confirmation of exciton superfluidity.
October 12, 2021
Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health marks its fifth anniversary and celebrates achievements and milestones while providing the most advanced medical and surgical care in the region.
July 21, 2022
In the face of diminishing finite resources, UC San Diego Professor of Physics Thomas Murphy believes our current trajectory of economic growth is unable to continue much longer.
October 3, 2022
Renowned environmental scientist Jesse H. Ausubel will be honored with the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. This award is presented annually by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Nierenberg Family to honor the memory of William A. Nierenberg.
March 15, 2023
UC San Diego scientists and colleagues have developed a way for computers to sift through sounds collected by field acoustic recording packages and process them faster than even the most trained human analysts. The method represents a major advance in the field of signal processing.
March 28, 2023
The UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute’s Nano3 facility recently received funding from the National Science Foundation to establish a nanotechnology workforce training program for veterans.
