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3D-printed soft four legged robot can walk on sand and stone
May 16, 2017
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first soft robot that is capa...
Nano fiber feels forces and hears sounds made by cells
May 15, 2017
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a miniature device that’s s...
Giving Students a Place to Prep for Tomorrow's Virtual (Reality) Economy
May 11, 2017
The laboratory looks like a cross between a classroom and a tech pavilion at the annual Consumer Ele...
Triton Entrepreneur Night: Pitch Perfect
May 10, 2017
Sensors that tell you if Chinese food from last weekend is still safe to eat. An app to let your pro...
Bioengineering Professor Christian Metallo Receives 2017 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
May 10, 2017
Christian Metallo, a bioengineering professor at the University of California San Diego, has been na...
Engineered bone marrow could make transplants safer
May 8, 2017
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed biomimetic bone tissues that coul...
Engineering student places third in UC-wide science communication contest
May 4, 2017
With a three-minute talk entitled “Using Geometry to Build Better Birth Control,” engine...
Stool Microbes Predict Advanced Liver Disease
May 3, 2017
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) — a condition that can lead to liver cirrhosis and ca...
UC San Diego Researchers Selected for IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition
May 2, 2017
A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has been selected to take part in th...
Researchers receive $7.5 million grant to study memory capacity and energy efficiency in the brain
May 1, 2017
A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego and Stanford University has received...
Students Seek to Ban Plastic Water Bottles from Campus
April 28, 2017
Zero waste by 2020—that’s one of the goals of the UC Office of the President’s Sus...
UC San Diego and edX Offer Professional Virtual Reality Courses Online
April 27, 2017
Virtual reality is one of the hottest emerging technologies in the entertainment industry today. Mil...
Engineers investigate a simple, no-bake recipe to make bricks from Martian soil
April 26, 2017
Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet’s red soil into bricks w...
UC San Diego nanoengineer selected as the U.S. nominee for 2017 ASPIRE Prize
April 25, 2017
Nanoengineering professor Liangfang Zhang at the University of California San Diego has been selecte...
Nanoparticles for treating bacterial infections take top prize at Research Expo 2017
April 24, 2017
B.J. (Byungji) Kim, a materials science and engineering graduate student at the University of Califo...