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Thirty Meter Telescope will be a most powerful eye on the sky
UC places a financial stake in the development and operation of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will be the largest, most powerful telescope of its kind.
UC Davis |
Plankton make scents for seabirds and a cooler planet
Top predators of the Southern Ocean are tied both to the health of the ocean ecosystem and to global climate regulation through a mutual relationship with phytoplankton.
UC San Diego |
UCSD to house Jonas Salk's papers
Family of polio vaccine pioneer donates personal papers to the UC San Diego library.
UC Davis |
Potential lung cancer vaccine shows renewed promise
In mouse studies, an investigational cancer vaccine boosted immune response and reduced the number of tumors.
UC Irvine |
President Obama to speak at UC Irvine commencement celebration
Months of petitioning paid off: President Obama will speak at UC Irvine's commencement this spring.
UC San Diego |
Faking pain? Can't fool a computer
Humans may think that grimace is genuine, but a computer-vision system can detect clues that give away the ploy.
UCLA Magazine |
Mix chemistry, YouTube and a special teacher for a magical reaction
An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has found new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his non-nonsense organic chemistry class.
UCLA |
A winning strategy: Students invent board games that tap into Inca culture, history
Students in an archaeology class on the Inca Empire devised board games based on the history and culture of what was the largest civilization in pre-Columbian America.
UC Berkeley |
Berkeley-borne technology spreading faster than ever
Since Cal's tech-transfer office opened, more than 800 companies have sponsored research projects, investing important resources in many areas and resulting in significant patent and licensing fees.
UC Irvine |
Titanium clubs can cause golf course fires
Sparks fly when head hits rocks in the rough, potentially igniting brush
UC San Diego |
Lied-to children more likely to cheat and lie
When adults are dishonest with their offspring, the children mirror that behavior.
UC Berkeley |
Fierce solar magnetic storm barely missed Earth in 2012
A rapid succession of coronal mass ejections – the most intense eruptions on the sun – sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through Earth’s orbit. Had it hit, it could have disrupted our increasingly electronic lives.