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20 hours ago | News
A seaweed considered a threat to the healthy growth of coral reefs in Hawaii may possess the ability to produce substances that could one day treat human diseases, a new study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego has revealed.
May 24 | News
Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a giant matter wave. This feat will allow scientists to better study the physical properties of excitons, which exist only fleetingly yet offer promising applications as diverse as efficient harvesting of solar energy and ultrafast computing.
Apr 20 | News
The
Internet has been abuzz with the tale of a University of California,
San Diego professor’s physics paper, submitted to the court in attempt
to prove his innocence in a recent traffic violation for failure to
stop. According to the court commissioner who reviewed the four-page
paper, Dmitri Krioukov’s arguments had little to do with his successful
appeal.
Mar 29 | News
Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter. In a recently published paper, the scientists describe the emergence of "spontaneous coherence," "spin texture," and "phase singularities" when excitons are cooled to near absolute zero.
Mar 8 | News
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for hydrogen fuel generation. The team says nanowires also offer a cheap way to deliver hydrogen fuel on a mass scale.
Mar 7 | News
Bioengineers
at the University of California, San Diego have invented a self-healing
hydrogel that binds quickly, as easily as Velcro, and forms a bond
strong enough to withstand repeated stretching. Computer simulations of
the gel network helped them discover the key to its properties: the
length of side chain molecules, or fingers.
Feb 10 | News
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new method for making scaffolds for culturing tissue in 3D arrangements that mimic those in the body. This advance allows the production of tissue culture scaffolds containing multiple structurally and chemically distinct layers using common laboratory reagents and materials.
Feb 9 | News
Scientists
have developed a new kind of tiny motor that they call a microrocket.
Powered by hydrogen gas bubbles, it can propel itself through acidic
environments, such as the human stomach, without any external energy
source.
Feb 9 | News
It's a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: Put a school of starving piranha and a 300-lb fish together, and who comes out the winner? The surprising answer—given the notorious guillotine-like bite of the piranha—is Brazil's massive Arapaima fish. The secret to Arapaima's success lies in its intricately designed scales, which could provide "bioinspiration" for engineers looking to develop flexible ceramics.
Feb 8 | News
In
building the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, a team of
University of California, San Diego researchers has also invented a more
remarkable device, a laser that funnels all of its photons in lasing.
This “no-waste” approach lets the scientists build a tiny laser without
worrying as much about laser thresholds or pump power.
