UC Berkeley |
New app turns smartphones into worldwide seismic network
UC Berkeley scientists developed the MyShake app, which can help detect earthquakes and eventually provide early warning for smartphone users.
The Conversation |
Many low-income students use only their phone to get online. What are they missing?
A UC Irvine researcher explores the effects unequally distributed online access.
UC Santa Cruz |
UC Santa Cruz researcher wins sustainability champion award
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition honors Mark Lipson for his contributions to the organic and sustainable agriculture movement.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Lasers produced by UC scientists bring light-speed data one step closer
Nanowire innovation illuminates the promise of electronics combined with light.
UC Riverside |
'Uber for Tutors' helps students learn on demand
Two UC Riverside undergrads who won world's largest education hackathon debut their app on Apple and Google stores.
UC Berkeley |
Slanted Door restaurateur to open new cafe at UC Berkeley
Charles Phan, who studied architecture at Berkeley in the 1980s, says his newest venture — to be located in Wurster Hall, home of the College of Environmental Design — will feature organic international food, his culinary trademark. T
UC Davis |
Memory replay prioritizes high-reward experiences
UC Davis neuroscientists find that we recall events better when they are associated with a reward.
UC Irvine |
Decade of rising seas slowed by land soaking up extra water, study finds
Scientists at UC Irvine and NASA provide the first measurements of how the earth's absorption of liquid is — temporarily — depressing sea levels around the world.
UC Merced |
Prestigious Keck Award granted to UC Merced bioengineer
Professor Victor Muñoz wins highly competitive $1 million prize for biomedical research, the campus's first.
UC Santa Barbara |
The brain game
A new book by UC Santa Barbara's Kenneth S. Kosik offers strategies for reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
UC Berkeley |
Worldwide bee epidemic linked to human cause: colony trafficking
A UC Berkeley finding suggests that the pandemic is manmade, with trade and transport of bees for crop pollination driving the spread.
UCLA |
UCLA scientists find out where the brain makes sighs - and why
The discovery of the origin and function of sighing could benefit patients with breathing problems.