2+ hour, 44+ min ago  (375+ words) Six professors from the University of California San Diego have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in recognition of their outstanding achievements in innovation. The UC San Diego honorees in NAI's 2026 class of Senior Members…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (285+ words) Each molecule has its own unmistakable tone, but the voices of individual molecules are so faint that traditional infrared spectroscopy can only detect the collective chorus of millions of molecules at once. Now researchers at UC San Diego have found…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (359+ words) Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist harmful bacterial infections and survive drought. The advance, published in ACS Materials Letters, could help strengthen global food security as increased…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (268+ words) 1Q, 1A -- where we ask one question and an expert gives one answer This year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists " Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi " for the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which may one day…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (359+ words) Engineers have developed a new design strategy for metal alloy negative electrodes that could significantly improve the performance and durability of next-generation solid-state batteries. The work could help advance the path toward practical, high-performance energy storage for electric vehicles. New…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago  (199+ words) Scientists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how diamond " the material used to encase fuel for fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory " can develop tiny structural flaws that may limit…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (379+ words) Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple yet powerful method to characterize lithium metal battery performance with the help of a widely used imaging tool: scanning electron microscopy. The advance could accelerate the development of…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (720+ words) Researchers have reached a crucial step in understanding how living cells may have evolved from nonliving matter At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How this happened is one…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (862+ words) Riley Need, a research specialist at UC San Diego's Qualcomm Institute, is driven by a voracious appetite for knowledge. Riley Need's scientific curiosity is omnivorous. They're utterly enthralled by the sheer volume of questions that science is trying to answer....