Press Clips Archive

UC San Diego engineers found a short-cut to higher-energy recycled EV batteries
R&D World | July 20, 2026

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new method to upcycle cathodes from used lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries i...

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Metasurface grating gives solar telescopes a boost
Physics World | July 14, 2026

A compact optical technology that has already proved its worth in Earth-bound applications could be on its way to space after researchers at the Unive...

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Retracing Cancer's Life Story to the Cause of DNA Mutations
Technology Networks | July 9, 2026

DNA mutations underlie many diseases, including cancer. Some sources of cancer-associated DNA mutations are well-known, like exposure to UV light and ...

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How a plant virus could keep astronauts medicated on a trip to Mars
R&D World | June 30, 2026

A comprehensive analysis of the expected shelf-lives of the entire 2023 ISS formulary found that 54 of 91 medications have a terrestrial shelf-life of...

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UC San Diego researchers land a pair of multimillion-dollar grants
San Diego Union-Tribune | June 23, 2026

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health awarded a team led by Drew Hall, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Jacobs Schoo...

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Optical Metasurface Captures Solar Magnetic Fields
IEEE Spectrum | June 18, 2026

A new nanopatterned structure based on sub-wavelength physics has proved its value in a real-world setting, and it could qualify for use in outer spac...

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Metasurface Enables Advance in Solar Telescope
Optics & Photonics News | June 17, 2026

Metasurfaces--artificial 2D planar surfaces that consist of subwavelength metallic or dielectric nanostructures--offer better, more efficient light co...

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Single Chip Combines Memory and Computation
American Society of Mechanical Engineers | June 16, 2026

A hardware advancement takes inspiration from the human brain?s neural network...

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Brain Corp, UCSD Partner on Robotic Spatial Awareness Project
San Diego Business Journal | June 10, 2026

The collaboration aims to improve AI's understanding of workspaces...

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New Data Chip Activates a Secret Message When You Breathe On It
Gizmodo | June 1, 2026

Researchers have been hard at work coming up with new ways to safely store information than traditional magnetic disks and optical storage, and that's...

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Breathing on this chip reveals a secret message
Popular Science | May 29, 2026

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a humidity-based image encoder that looks straight out of James Bo...

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Never smoked? Good, but you could still get lung cancer
Nature | May 27, 2026

Lung cancer in people who have never smoked is now considered to be the fifth most common cause of cancer death globally. It's not yet clear why, but ...

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