UC San Diego |
Blood pressure readings at your fingertips
Billion Labs, a company founded by electrical engineers at UC San Diego, wins a design award for their at-home health app.
UC Santa Barbara |
New study reveals changes in the brain throughout pregnancy
Emily Jacobs’ lab at UC Santa Barbara have shed light on this understudied area with the first-ever map of a human brain over the course of pregnancy.
UCLA |
U.S. Latino GDP skyrockets to record $3.7 trillion, with growth rate outpacing China, India
Despite COVID, Latinos’ economic output in 2022 was greater than 6 of the world’s 10 largest economies.
UC Riverside |
Like father, like daughter, when it comes to cardiovascular health
UC Riverside-led mouse study finds fathers on unhealthy diets can cause cardiovascular disease in their daughters.
UC Merced |
Study: People facing life-or-death choice put too much trust in AI
In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them — an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial intelligence, researchers said.
UC Davis |
The promise of alternative proteins
Can we meet the global demand for meat? Food scientists at UC Davis are studying how to make beef using cow stem cells.
UC Newsroom |
National Science Foundation awards the University of California a $2.5M grant for its CAMP program
The innovative effort has helped propel a 580 percent increase in underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and math at UC over the past three decades.
UC San Diego |
Dangerous airborne fungus boosted by California droughts
Valley fever cases peak from September to November; drought temporarily dampens these peaks, but leads to bigger surges once rain returns
UC Berkeley |
New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics
The catalytic process, discovered by researchers at UC Berkeley, efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing a circular economy for plastics one step closer to reality.
UC Newsroom |
You know wildfire smoke is bad for you. But did you know it's this bad?
Breathing wildfire smoke harms our lungs — but the damage doesn't stop there. And UC research finds that wildfire smoke could be 10x more toxic than smoke from "everyday" sources like traffic and industry.
UC Davis |
Innovative new technology helps seniors age in place
Interactive tech can help older adults live alone and ease caregiver fatigue.
UC San Diego |
Dogs understand words from soundboard buttons, study reveals
The study is the first empirical paper to emerge from the world’s largest longitudinal project on button-trained pets.