January 24, 2017
Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego offer scientists an extraordinary new tool to study ocean currents and the tiny creatures they transport. Swarms of these underwater robots helped answer some basic questions about the most abundant life forms in…
October 3, 2024
An award-winning UC San Diego electrical engineering class is now offered to Chula Vista high school students right at their own school, during their school day, in an effort to expand earlier access to engineering concepts and skills.
June 3, 2024
Using unconventional statistical mechanics to understand fluid dynamics, UC San Diego Professor of Physics Nigel Goldenfeld helped solve a 150 year old physics problem of how turbulent fluids move through a pipe.
January 10, 2020
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers have discovered how a new immune system works to protect bacteria from phages, viruses that infect bacteria — new information that could be leveraged to improve treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections by refining phage therapy.
June 19, 2014
What will be the role of robotics in the workplace? How can startups in robotics become mass-market success stories? And what will the robotics industry look like in five, or even 50 years? Those are some of the topics up for discussion June 23 when academic, government and industry participants…
October 17, 2013
…as they add more sensors to the testing rig and engine. The plan is to go back to the Mojave and gather more data in February. The students also plan to design, print and test an engine for a bigger rocket. The ultimate goal is to launch the rocket up…
August 15, 2018
On July 17, a NOAA-funded team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of Delaware discovered the missing 75-foot stern section of USS Abner Read, which sank in 1943 in 290 feet of water off Kiska, one of Alaska’s Aleutian…
August 14, 2023
UC San Diego researchers at the Qualcomm Institute will use a $2 million NIH award to purchase a new, non-invasive machine to study the magnetic fields of the human brain. The research has applications in epilepsy, concussions and more.
July 22, 2016
To make 5G a reality, sensing, computing and communications must transform wireless networks into intelligent, efficient and flexible drivers of a world where “every day things get connected for a smarter tomorrow.”
November 14, 2013
The biggest outdoor shake table in the world and a robot designed to move along utility lines have received Best of What’s New awards from Popular Science, the world’s largest science and technology magazine. The two projects are featured in the magazine’s December issue, now on newsstands.
