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Borrowing from Astronomy to Rob the Twinkle from Brain Imagery

June 17, 2019

UC San Diego scientists adopt astronomy’s adaptive optics to correct microscope images for the scattering of light that occurs in brain tissue.

Chemists Manipulate the Physics of Digital Devices

June 10, 2019

Having powerful but highly efficient smartphones, laptops and TVs would be satisfying to many digital device users—including plugged-in scientists like those from the University of California San Diego and Japan’s RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (RIKEN), who discovered how to significantly red

UC San Diego Announces Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professorship

April 30, 2019

With support from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Division of Physical Sciences at UC San Diego has established the Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professorship. It’s part of an effort to bring eminent female physicists to the university for collaborative research interactions.

Scientists Observe Rare Decay Process in the Universe

April 24, 2019

An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of California San Diego, report in the science journal Nature that they observed the decay of Xenon-124 atoms for the first time.

Magnets with ‘Magic Angle’ Offer New Way to Study Jelly States of Genes

April 11, 2019

Chemistry & Biochemistry researchers at UC San Diego ventured into the tiny atomic world of protein molecules within cells with a technological approach never before applied. Their findings offer other researchers a new way to do their work.

Chemists Cook Up Elusive Molecule for the First Time

March 27, 2019

During this “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements,” scientists from UC San Diego have isolated a 3+7 diatomic molecule by isolating a metal compound containing the elusive “BF.”

Scientists ‘Game’ for Remote-control Chemistry of the Future

March 19, 2019

Theoretical chemists at UC San Diego mix molecules and light in optical cavities in a promising study recently published in the Cell Press journal Chem.

Scientists discover how Proteins interact along Metabolic Pathway

March 18, 2019

New research from scientists at the University of California San Diego and the University of Michigan has opened a new chapter in the story about what happens between two key metabolic enzymes, setting chemical biologists on their own path to a new understanding of fatty acid biosynthesis.

Mathematician’s Research adds up to a 2019 Sloan Fellowship

February 20, 2019

UC San Diego assistant professor in math is one of 126 Sloan Research Fellows in the U.S. and Canada recognized as among the most promising scientific researchers in her field.

Astronomers Invite Citizens to Crowd-Source New Worlds

February 19, 2019

A relaunch of the project involving citizen scientists coincides with an Astrophysical Journal Letters publication of an exciting new discovery that challenges the way astronomers think about the long-term evolution of planetary systems.
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