December 7, 2017
…the world to develop technological solutions to improve women’s safety in instances of violence or harassment. According to the competition rules, the winning device must be able to autonomously and inconspicuously trigger an emergency alert and transmit information to a network of community responders—all within 90 seconds and a cost…
December 6, 2018
…that mobilizes scientific and technological expertise to create practical problem-solving for sustainable development through the United Nations (U.N.). Created in 2012, SDSN is charged with implementing both the Paris Climate Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals—bold global objectives U.N. member nations set for themselves to end poverty and hunger, ensure access…
October 31, 2019
…the modern age of technological gadgetry, light—both natural and artificial—is pervasive. Light is inherently intertwined with the 24-hour biological sleep-wake cycle known as the circadian rhythm, as well as with the quality of our sleep, which factors into our health, disease prevention and normal everyday functioning. Credit: Ximei Ackerman, Tiffany…
July 30, 2020
…fields collaborate to create technological innovations for the arts and culture, environmental science, health and energy. QI Enrich offers faculty, researchers, industry professionals and students the chance to receive training from experts on UC San Diego campus. Participants can learn how to work with big data, market through Amazon Web…
October 1, 2020
…models for large-scale social, technological and biological networks. This allows them to model contagion and predict the spread of emerging diseases. He was profiled in The New York Times in March of this year for his work on predicting the spread of the coronavirus. The model The model Ma, Vespignani…
November 19, 2020
…to a number of technological constraints, which are beginning to be lifted,” explained Seitz, first author of the study. “Because of this recent ‘emergence’ of glycans, we still have a lot to learn about them.” The superposition of four glycan conformations onto the static neuraminidase structure shows the conformational variability…
June 3, 2021
…of groundbreaking alumni, and technological advances in the institution’s second century of research. Included are images from the days when Scripps was a small marine lab, the construction of the original Scripps Pier, research expeditions on the institution’s long line of ships, groundbreaking scientific discoveries, many of the notable scientists…
January 19, 2012
Scripps’ Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC) celebrates its 10-year anniversary and looks forward to the decades ahead with two special events (both events are free but reservations are required).
April 16, 2012
Once upon a time, it was fairly easy to manage your old photos, correspondence, and even home movies, which, for the most part, were locked into one format, and could only be shared in the physical sense.
October 17, 2012
Fresh examinations of lunar rocks gathered by Apollo mission astronauts have yielded new insights about the moon’s chemical makeup as well as clues about the giant impacts that may have shaped the early beginnings of Earth and the moon.
