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New UC San Diego Symposium Stirs Dialogue Among Data Science and Arts and Humanities Experts
On February 7 and 8, UC San Diego will bring together experts from data science and the arts and humanities to examine the emerging relationship between data and culture. The symposium will provide a forum for artists, historians, philosophers,...
27-Jan-2020 2:45 PM EST
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Algae Shown to Improve Gastrointestinal Health
UC San Diego scientists have completed the first study in humans demonstrating that a common algae improves gastrointestinal issues related to irritable bowel syndrome. The green, single-celled organism called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was found to...
27-Jan-2020 5:40 AM EST
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Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Details of Galaxy Clusters
A new study published late last year in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society explored the molecular gas within and surrounding the intracluster medium, which fills the space between galaxies in a galaxy cluster.
24-Jan-2020 4:35 PM EST
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Large Amounts of Oxygen Detected in Ancient Star’s Atmosphere
An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and most...
24-Jan-2020 1:15 PM EST
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Data from Behind Enemy Lines: How Russia May have Used Twitter to Seize Crimea
Online discourse by users of social media can provide important clues about the political dispositions of communities.
23-Jan-2020 2:20 PM EST
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International Research Team Confirms Potential Glioblastoma Inhibitors
However, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Research Scientist Igor Tsigelny recently collaborated Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer at UC San Diego and colleagues from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and the Pasteur Institute in...
21-Jan-2020 6:35 PM EST
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UC San Diego-led Study Finds Close Evolutionary Proximity Between Microbial Domains in the ‘Tree of Life’
A comprehensive analysis of 10,575 genomes as part of a multi-national study led by researchers at UC San Diego has revealed close evolutionary proximity between the microbial domains at the base of the tree of life, the branching pattern of...
17-Jan-2020 1:15 PM EST
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Mosquitoes Engineered to Repel Dengue Virus
An international team of scientists has synthetically engineered mosquitoes that halt the transmission of the dengue virus. The development marks the first engineered approach in mosquitoes that targets the four known types of dengue, improving...
13-Jan-2020 2:55 PM EST
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Understanding the ethics of genetic engineering – let our experts at UC San Diego explain
7-Jun-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Scripps Oceanographer Lynne Talley Available to Comment on the Topic of Atlantic Ocean Circulation
11-Apr-2018 5:05 PM EDT
Northern CA Wildfires Generate 1.5 Million Views of UC San Diego’s ‘Firemap’ Resource
A web-based tool recently developed by UC San Diego researchers under an NSF grant to perform data-driven predictive modeling and real-time tracking of fires has already been viewed about one million times and generated more than 115,000 unique...
13-Oct-2017 4:05 PM EDT
UC San Diego Scientists Garner National High-Risk, High-Reward Awards
Emma Farley, an assistant professor at UC San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences and School of Medicine, has been awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Melissa Gymrek, an assistant professor in the School of Medicine and...
5-Oct-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Structural Engineer Available for Interviews About Damage in Mexico Earthquake.
20-Sep-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Saving the World, One Robot Swarm-Infested Hurricane at a Time
11-Sep-2017 6:05 PM EDT
Seismologists Available to Discuss North Korea 6.3 Seismic Event
3-Sep-2017 3:05 PM EDT
Researcher Available to Discuss Impact of Solar Eclipse on Solar Power Generation
16-Aug-2017 7:05 AM EDT
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