July 23, 2014
…will not surprise most dog owners: Dogs can act jealous, finds a new study from the University of California, San Diego. Darwin thought so, too. But emotion researchers have been arguing for years whether jealousy requires complex cognition. And some scientists have even said that jealousy is an entirely social…
August 28, 2024
…social media videos of dogs using soundboard buttons to “talk,” you’re not alone. These buttons have taken the pet world by storm, leading to impressive and sometimes seemingly miraculous feats shared across platforms like TikTok and Instagram. But are these dogs truly communicating, or are they just responding to cues…
April 25, 2012
Tape measures. Rulers. Graphs. The gas gauge in your car, and the icon on your favorite digital device showing battery power. The number line and its cousins – notations that map numbers onto space and often represent magnitude – are everywhere. Most adults in industrialized societies are so fluent at…
May 6, 2021
UC San Diego researchers report that one kind of perceptual learning can occur in memory-impaired persons who do not actually remember what they learned.
January 5, 2023
Researchers led by UC San Diego computer scientist Tajana Simunic-Rosing have entered in a $35 million contract from the Semiconductor Research Corporation to make computing orders of magnitude faster and more efficient. A group of 10 universities will band together to create the PRISM center.
April 10, 2015
An upcoming exhibition at the University of California, San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute will showcase art works derived from large-scale laser scans of buildings, landscapes and the environment. Autonomous Sensing ScanLAB opens April 16 in Atkinson Hall’s gallery@calit2, with a 5pm panel discussion with speakers Thomas Pearce and Matthew Shaw from…
May 22, 2012
…says UC San Diego cognitive scientist Rafael Núñez. In recently published research that caught the attention of the self-identified nerds at Slashdot, a news website owned by Geeknet, Inc., and io9, a Gawker blog for fans of science and sci-fi—as well as the more august outlets of Science and New…
February 10, 2022
…Angeles with their two dogs named River and Lulu. For Valentine’s Day, the couple will be celebrating with a dinner at Duke’s in Malibu, which also has a location in La Jolla. “We already have reservations and it’s a tradition now that started back in San Diego where our love…
