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Stick-on Gel Offers New Way to Treat and Monitor Plants
April 28, 2026
A stick-on gel for plants could offer a simple, safe and targeted way to treat diseases and pests. I...
New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek Care
April 23, 2026
A new chatbot could reliably help people decide what to do about their symptoms — and do so ba...
Six New Projects Are Empowering Early-Career Engineering and Computer Science Faculty
April 23, 2026
Six teams from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been awarded funding to accel...
MRI and Augmented Reality for Better Back Pain Surgery Wins at Research Expo 2026
April 21, 2026
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Songyuan Lu won the grand prize at this year’s Research E...
AI-enhanced Microscopy Produces Crisp, Real-time Video Inside Live Cells
April 20, 2026
Using artificial intelligence, engineers have developed a new way to watch the inner workings of liv...
These Engineers Are Working on a Better Asteroid Warning System
April 14, 2026
Despite all the excitement Hollywood offers with blockbuster films about saving Earth from disasters...
Using Physics, Engineers Create Fentanyl Test Strips That Are 100 Times More Sensitive
April 13, 2026
Engineers have developed fentanyl test strips that are about 100 times more sensitive than current c...
Two UC San Diego Bioengineers Named AIMBE Fellows
April 13, 2026
Two bioengineering faculty at UC San Diego were inducted into the 2026 College of Fellows of the Ame...
What Does It Mean To Learn With AI?
April 9, 2026
Across higher education, universities are grappling with a central question — will genera...
Why is the Artemis II Mission Landing off the Coast of San Diego?
April 9, 2026
Artemis II – the first crewed mission to orbit the moon since 1972 – is set to splash do...
New Chip Design Could Boost Efficiency of Power Management in Data Centers
April 8, 2026
Engineers have developed a new chip design that could make data centers more energy efficient by imp...
An Asteroid Doesn’t Have to Hit Earth to Cause Catastrophe
April 7, 2026
The threat of a civilization-ending asteroid hitting the Earth is well-known — as a plethora o...
On the Rise: Jacobs School Ranks #9 Best Engineering School in the Nation
April 7, 2026
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is ranked the #9 engineering school in the nation in t...
KatoMed, a UC San Diego MedTech Accelerator Company, Shines
March 31, 2026
KatoMed, a San Diego-based startup that developed a navigation tool for spine surgery that could res...
Eight UC San Diego Researchers Elected 2025 AAAS Fellows
March 26, 2026
Eight researchers at the University of California San Diego have been elected 2025 Fellows of the Am...
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Stick-on Gel Offers New Way to Treat and Monitor Plants
April 28, 2026
A stick-on gel for plants could offer a simple, safe and targeted way to treat diseases and pests. I...
New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek Care
April 23, 2026
A new chatbot could reliably help people decide what to do about their symptoms — and do so ba...
Six New Projects Are Empowering Early-Career Engineering and Computer Science Faculty
April 23, 2026
Six teams from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been awarded funding to accel...
MRI and Augmented Reality for Better Back Pain Surgery Wins at Research Expo 2026
April 21, 2026
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Songyuan Lu won the grand prize at this year’s Research E...
AI-enhanced Microscopy Produces Crisp, Real-time Video Inside Live Cells
April 20, 2026
Using artificial intelligence, engineers have developed a new way to watch the inner workings of liv...