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New Nano Materials Inspired by Bird Feathers Play with Light to Create Color

May 13, 2015

Inspired by the way iridescent bird feathers play with light, scientists have created thin films of material in a wide range of pure colors — from red to green — with hues determined by physical structure rather than pigments.

UC San Diego Researchers Develop Bacterial ‘FM Radio’

April 9, 2014

A team of UC San Diego biologists and engineers has developed a “rapid and tunable post-translational coupling for genetic circuits.”

U.S. News & World Report: UC San Diego Graduate and Professional Schools are Nation’s Best

March 12, 2019

U.S. News & World Report today released its 2020 guidebook that ranks the nation’s top graduate programs and professional schools, giving high marks to UC San Diego’s innovative programs.

App Allows Inspectors to Find Gas Pump Skimmers Faster

August 14, 2019

A team of computer scientists at UC San Diego and the University of Illinois has developed an app that allows state and federal inspectors to detect devices that steal consumer credit and debit card data at gas pumps. The devices, known as skimmers, use Bluetooth to transmit the data they…

California Networking Consortium to Honor UC San Diego ‘Cyber’ Archaeologist

March 8, 2016

The CENIC networking consortium will give its Innovations in Networking Award for Research Applications to UC San Diego archaeologist Thomas Levy for his work to digitize archaeological excavations using a suite of cyberarchaeology tools.

New Algorithms Help Four-Legged Robots Run in the Wild

October 4, 2022

A new system of algorithms developed by UC San Diego engineers enables four-legged robots to walk and run on challenging terrain while avoiding both static and moving obstacles. The work could help build robots for search and rescue missions or collect information in hard to access environments.

Internet of Things Specialization Among First Lab-Based Online Courses

March 23, 2017

“Build Your Own Internet of Things,” a new online course developed at UC San Diego, has drawn the interest of more than 30,000 active users from around the world.

Engineers Conduct Seismic Tests of Five-Story Building Equipped with Nonstructural Components

April 12, 2012

What happens when you put a fully equipped five-story building, which includes an intensive care unit, a surgery suite, piping and air conditioning, fire barriers and even a working elevator, through a series of high-intensity earthquakes?

CalIT2 Workshop Looks to the Future of Health and Medicine

November 1, 2024

Throughout the day-long event, participants exchanged views on current issues in health and medicine, from addiction to hospital cybersecurity.

SDSC Extends its “Network” with Graph Analytics Training

September 28, 2015

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a graph can be worth a lot more than that in the burgeoning field of big data, even though translating terabytes of data into meaningful insights is no easy feat.

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