UC San Diego |
Florentine 'patient' gets high-tech physical
Two doctoral students travel to Italy to assess the structural condition of one of Florence's landmarks, the Baptistery of St. John.
UC Irvine |
Overseeing your online afterlife
Jed Brubaker’s graduate research at UC Irvine guides Facebook’s new policy on postmortem account stewardship.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |
DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore Lab to restore touch to amputees
Lab will join collaborative research team that intends to build the world’s first neural system to enable naturalistic feeling and movements in prosthetic hands.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
Startup promises safe lithium batteries
Venture capital backs company — co-founded by a Berkeley Lab scientist —developing a battery using a nonflammable electrolyte.
UC Berkeley |
1,000th solar suitcase is a beacon in developing world
In just a few years, this innovation has saved lives in places where light and power are rare commodities.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |
California employers train service members for advanced manufacturing jobs
Labs, academia, government agencies and nonprofits are joining forces to to develop a pipeline to help service members and vets develop highly specialized skills.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Berkeley Lab’s Top 50 game-changing technologies for defeating poverty
Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies produces first-of-its-kind blueprint for sustainable global development.
UC San Francisco |
Neuroscientist wins prize for cochlear implant contributions
Michael Merzenich is among five winners of the Russ Prize, bioengineering’s highest honor.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |
Technology quickly traces source of tainted food
Contaminated food sickens 1 in 6 Americans every year. DNATrax traces the bad stuff back to its source.
UC Newsroom |
How songbirds may help build a better hearing aid
Avian ability to pinpoint 'signal' sounds inspires algorithm at the heart of a new type of auditory device.
UC Newsroom |
2014 across UC
In many ways, it was a very good year at the University of California's campuses and labs.
UCLA |
Lens-free microscope detects cancer at the cellular level
Researchers develop device that can do the work of pathology lab microscopes