A research team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a soft robotic lens whose movements are controlled by the eyes—blink twice and the lens zooms in and out; look left, right, up or down and the ...
Materials Science
Aug 5, 2019
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Old-school Hollywood editors cut unwanted frames of film and patched in desired frames to make a movie. The human body does something similar—trillions of times per second—through a biochemical editing process called ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 27, 2019
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Advocates of healthy eating often extol the benefits of adding antioxidants to one's diet. These compounds are thought to suppress "free radical" molecules in the body that can age cells as a response to stress.
Environment
Jul 22, 2019
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University of California San Diego researchers have calculations for how to create high-intensity twisted laser beams—a flavor of laser pulse the world has likely never seen. These researchers also have done the math on ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 2, 2019
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Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to a high-impact and long-sought advance for rechargeable batteries: replacing the graphite anode with ...
Materials Science
Jul 1, 2019
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When Amnon Amir, Jon Sanders, and their colleagues began using positive control samples of Vibrio fischeri in plate-based extractions as a way to validate results, they unexpectedly observed that many of the surrounding samples ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 26, 2019
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The Goldilocks of fairy-tale fame knew something about porridge. It needed to be just right—neither too hot nor too cold. Same with furniture—neither too hard nor too soft. In a different context, scientists at UC San ...
General Physics
Jun 25, 2019
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While intense magnetic fields are naturally generated by neutron stars, researchers have been striving to achieve similar results for many years. UC San Diego mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student Tao Wang ...
Plasma Physics
Jun 18, 2019
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Countless textbooks have characterized bacteria as simple, disorganized blobs of molecules.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 13, 2019
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Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new deep learning models that can accurately predict the properties of molecules and crystals. By enabling almost instantaneous property predictions, ...
Materials Science
Jun 10, 2019
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