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Optical Device Uses Humidity to Unlock Hidden Information, Offers New Option for Data Storage
May 27, 2026

Engineers have developed an optical device that reveals hidden images and changes colors in response...

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Wearable Ultrasound Patch Could Improve Care for High-Risk Pregnancies
May 26, 2026

Engineers created a soft, wearable ultrasound patch that can continuously monitor a fetus for hours ...

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UC San Diego Fusion Expert Leads New Pulsed Power Fusion Collaboration
May 20, 2026

The Pulsed Liner Fusion collaborative network is coordinated by Simon Bott-Suzuki, a fusion leader a...

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UC San Diego’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Celebrates Six Decades of Impact
May 14, 2026

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Eng...

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UC San Diego Researchers Shine a Light on Peripheral Artery Disease
May 14, 2026

UC San Diego researchers find that a simple technology that measures blood volume changes coupled wi...

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UC San Diego Engineers Launch Free Digital Twin for End-to-End Testing of Applications over Wireless
May 13, 2026

Electrical engineers at UC San Diego developed an open-source digital twin of a wireless n...

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A Faster, Smarter Ground Station for Crowded Skies
May 13, 2026

UC San Diego engineers have designed a new kind of satellite ground station that replaces bulky dish...

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UC San Diego Researcher Awarded LANL-UC Fellowship
May 7, 2026

UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Yuanyuan Shi has been awarded the Michael...

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Students Get an Intro to AI in First AI Major Class at UC San Diego
April 30, 2026

More than 100 undergraduate students enrolled in UC San Diego’s new AI major took their f...

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Stick-on Gel Offers New Way to Treat and Monitor Plants
April 28, 2026

A stick-on gel for plants could offer a simple, safe and targeted way to treat diseases and pests. I...

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New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek Care
April 23, 2026

A new chatbot could reliably help people decide what to do about their symptoms — and do so ba...

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Six New Projects Are Empowering Early-Career Engineering and Computer Science Faculty
April 23, 2026

Six teams from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been awarded funding to accel...

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MRI and Augmented Reality for Better Back Pain Surgery Wins at Research Expo 2026
April 21, 2026

Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Songyuan Lu won the grand prize at this year’s Research E...

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AI-enhanced Microscopy Produces Crisp, Real-time Video Inside Live Cells
April 20, 2026

Using artificial intelligence, engineers have developed a new way to watch the inner workings of liv...

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These Engineers Are Working on a Better Asteroid Warning System
April 14, 2026

Despite all the excitement Hollywood offers with blockbuster films about saving Earth from disasters...

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New Data Chip Activates a Secret Message When You Breathe On It
Gizmodo | June 1, 2026

Researchers have been hard at work coming up with new ways to safely store information than traditional magnetic disks and optical storage, and that's...

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Breathing on this chip reveals a secret message
Popular Science | May 29, 2026

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a humidity-based image encoder that looks straight out of James Bo...

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Never smoked? Good, but you could still get lung cancer
Nature | May 27, 2026

Lung cancer in people who have never smoked is now considered to be the fifth most common cause of cancer death globally. It's not yet clear why, but ...

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Optical Device Uses Humidity to Unlock Hidden Information, Offers New Option for Data Storage
May 27, 2026

Engineers have developed an optical device that reveals hidden images and changes colors in response...

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Wearable Ultrasound Patch Could Improve Care for High-Risk Pregnancies
May 26, 2026

Engineers created a soft, wearable ultrasound patch that can continuously monitor a fetus for hours ...

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UC San Diego Fusion Expert Leads New Pulsed Power Fusion Collaboration
May 20, 2026

The Pulsed Liner Fusion collaborative network is coordinated by Simon Bott-Suzuki, a fusion leader a...

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UC San Diego’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Celebrates Six Decades of Impact
May 14, 2026

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Eng...

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UC San Diego Researchers Shine a Light on Peripheral Artery Disease
May 14, 2026

UC San Diego researchers find that a simple technology that measures blood volume changes coupled wi...

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