April 18, 2011
…of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research focuses on the discovery of new anti-cancer, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory or neurotoxic compounds from marine algae, with a special emphasis on blue-green algae. More… Theodore Groves Theodore Groves is a professor of economics. He is also director of the Center for Environmental Economics which…
December 9, 2020
According to findings published Dec. 9 in the journal Science Advances, Earth’s plate subduction could have started 3.75 billion years ago, reshaping Earth’s surface and setting the stage for a planet hospitable to life.
May 2, 2016
An international team of astronomers composed of UC San Diego astrophysicists has discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting near the “habitable zone” of an ultracool dwarf star, the first planets ever discovered around such a tiny and dim star.
February 6, 2014
…fears—on a night when Earth’s shadow eclipsed the full moon. Tom Murphy, a physicist at UC San Diego, is among the scientists who have aimed laser beams at suitcase-sized reflectors placed on the moon by Apollo astronauts and unmanned Soviet rovers. By precisely timing the light’s return to Earth, Murphy…
February 15, 2012
…out of a breach in a massive slab of Earth. Their new mechanism explaining how such a large volume of magma was generated is published in the Feb. 16 issue of the journal Nature.
August 6, 2018
Early Earth was a hot, gaseous, dusty and dynamic planet with an atmosphere and an ocean. Then its surface cooled and stabilized enough for clouds, landmasses and early life to form about four billion years ago, during what’s called the isotopic age of rocks, or the Archean Period. Atmospheric chemical…
May 22, 2023
The latest space experiments from UC San Diego and Axiom Space will explore therapies for breast and colorectal cancer aboard the ISS, and monitor astronauts’ stem cell health over time.
February 23, 2017
…known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star may be the biggest news of the year for the space agency. But it wasn’t only big news at NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., where a press conference was held Wednesday afternoon to publicize the achievement. Physics professor Adam Burgasser…
September 29, 2014
Chemical fingerprints of the element nitrogen vary by extremes in materials from the molecules of life to the solar wind to interstellar dust. Ideas for how this great variety came about have included alien molecules shuttled in by icy comets from beyond our solar system and complex chemical scenarios.
July 8, 2015
Marcia McNutt, a prominent geophysicist, national leader in science, and alumna of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has been nominated to become the next president of the National Academy of Sciences.
