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Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-smokers, New Study Finds
July 2, 2025

A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposur...

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Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom
June 30, 2025

Phuong Truong has done it all at UC San Diego: from an undergraduate student in structural engineeri...

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Living Materials Now Easier to Build with a Larger Palette of Ingredients
June 30, 2025

Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants fro...

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Sensitive Yet Tough Photonic Devices Are Now a Reality
June 25, 2025

Engineers have achieved a long-sought milestone in photonics: creating tiny optical devices that are...

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New Cooling Tech Could Curb Data Centers' Rising Energy Demands
June 13, 2025

A new cooling technology could significantly improve the energy efficiency of data centers and high-...

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2025 Jacobs School Award of Excellence Recipients
June 12, 2025

The Jacobs School of Engineering will celebrate the undergraduate students in the class of 2025 at i...

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Reimagining RFID: UC San Diego Researchers Develop Award-Winning Real-Time, Battery-Free Sensors
June 10, 2025

UC San Diego engineers' award-winning SenSync system turns conventional RFID technology into a r...

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Toothbrush-Shaped Ultrasound Allows for Gum Monitoring
June 6, 2025

UC San Diego engineers have developed a toothbrush-shaped ultrasound transducer that can provid...

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Recognizing Sex Differences in Disease Can Improve Treatments for All
June 6, 2025

One-size-fits-all hats are okay, but one-size-fits-all medical treatments don’t cut it. A new ...

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We Are Safer During and After Earthquakes Thanks to UC San Diego’s Shake Table
June 3, 2025

Homes, offices, parking garages, bridges and other structures across the United States are safer dur...

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Media resources for upcoming tests of a 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego earthquake simulator
May 30, 2025

Media resources for upcoming tests of a 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Die...

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10-story Steel-framed Building to be Put to the Test on UC San Diego Earthquake Simulator
May 28, 2025

A 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building will soon be put to the test on an earthquake simulator...

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Computer Science Professor Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
May 21, 2025

Russell Impagliazzo, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering,...

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Maximizing pressure in laser-driven shock experiments
May 19, 2025

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of Califor...

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A Clearer Look at Diabetic Kidney Disease via New Optical Imaging Technology
May 16, 2025

Bioengineers and clinicians working together developed an “optical biopsy” that could im...

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The recent increase in non-smokers' lung cancer rates may be due to air pollution
MK News (Korea) | July 3, 2025

The recent increase in non-smokers' lung cancer rates may be due to air pollution, according to a study. Air pollution can cause lung cancer-related g...

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Air pollution linked to lung cancer-driving DNA mutations, study finds
The Guardian | July 2, 2025

Research finds that the higher the levels of air pollution in a region, the more cancer-promoting mutations are present....

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Air pollution may be raising risk of lung cancer in 'never-smokers'
The Hill | July 2, 2025

Exposure to air pollution, other contaminants and traditional herbal medicines may be contributing to the development of lung cancer in people who hav...

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Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-smokers, New Study Finds
July 2, 2025

A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposur...

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Living Materials Now Easier to Build with a Larger Palette of Ingredients
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Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants fro...

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Sensitive Yet Tough Photonic Devices Are Now a Reality
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Engineers have achieved a long-sought milestone in photonics: creating tiny optical devices that are...

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New Cooling Tech Could Curb Data Centers' Rising Energy Demands
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