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Doctors Complete First-Ever Personalized Cervical Spine Surgery

This groundbreaking procedure uses a combination of AI and 3D printing to develop a customized implant.

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Atmospheric CO₂ hits record levels—A stark warning from Mauna Loa

Monthly Keeling Curve average exceeded 430 parts per million in May.

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Study finds no sex differences in toddlers’ traits at Autism diagnosis

The findings have potential implications for early diagnosis.

Neurons and their branch

How do we learn something new? Study reveals how our brain learns

Scientists reveal how the brain learns and adapts.

Space background

Dark matter mystery: New research explores star-free halos

A detection of completely dark halos would open up a new window to study the universe.

Shackleton Crater

Science fiction to reality: Searching for a lunar oasis

New research may help astronauts locate viable water sources on the moon.

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SMART: A software to unlock cell signaling’s secrets

Spatial Modeling Algorithms for Reactions and Transport.

Revealing New Insights into Aluminum Ablation

New method reveals how lasers ablate Aluminum

A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UCSD, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made advancements in a longstanding issue of laser-induced...

Person in protective gear spraying pesticides in a crop field highlighting agricultural pest management practices

New powerful technology reverses insecticide resistance in pests

Since insecticides are the most prevalent way of controlling crop damage from pests, their overuse has rendered pests insecticide-resistant. When beetles, moths, or other...

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New optical biosensor technology rapidly detect monkeypox

With the urgent need for faster and more effective diagnostic tools to detect Monkeypox, researchers have pioneered an innovative detection system. The team at...

mountaintop collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami

A mountaintop collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami

Greenland landslide caused nine-day earthquake.

Researchers use a new technique called SMIRC to collect microbial natural products.

Researchers develop new technique to explore oceanic microbes

It could be the first step in uncovering compounds that lead to next-generation antibiotics.

This finger wrap is powered by the wearer's fingertip sweat—and also monitors levels of glucose, lactate, vitamin C and levodopa in that same sweat.

Electronic finger wrap provides health monitoring at your fingertips

This finger wrap is powered by the wearer's fingertip sweat.

Mars InSight as seen in "selfie" taken by lander

Geophysicists find stores of liquid water on Mars

Presence of liquid water most probable explanation for data collected by Mars lander.

UC San Diego PhD candidate Grayson Deysher is first author of the paper outlining the team’s work.

Researchers create world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery

A breakthrough in inexpensive, clean, fast-charging batteries.

Image showing Colored SEM image of a microrobot made of an algae cell (green) covered with macrophage-mimicking nanoparticles (red). Scale bar: 5 µm.

Microrobot-filled pill offers hope for treating IBD in mice

Biohybrid microrobots help control colonic cytokines and strengthen the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease.

Woman sleeping on bed at home

Understanding health through changes in sleep pattern

Analysis of sleep phenotypes over a five million night period.

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Is coffee good or bad for health?

Genome-wide studies of coffee intake in UK/US Europeans.

Image showing Colored SEM image of a microrobot made of an algae cell (green) covered with drug-filled nanoparticles (orange) coated with red blood cell membranes. Scale bar: 2 µm.

Microrobots deliver cancer drugs to lung tumors in mice

Biohybrid microrobots target lung tumors with drug-filled nanoparticles.

Alysson Muotri, director of the Sanford Stem Cell Institute (SSCI) Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research Center at UC San Diego.

First-in-kind protocol for creating miniature artificial brains

Researchers worldwide can now create highly realistic brain cortical organoids.

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Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins

Findings suggest new possibilities for early autism detection.

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Scientists built the most extensive and most detailed bird family tree to date

Computational tools fuel reconstruction of new and improved bird family tree.

Pipette on multi well plate over dna research data

Genetic tool tracks CRISPR editing risks

Deciphering DNA repair progression with mutation classifier.

This new cathode material for lithium-sulfur materials is structurally healable and highly conductive.

Healable cathode makes solid-state Li-S batteries a practical reality

Healable cathode could unlock the potential of solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries.

The anterior cardiac veins are a group of parallel coronary veins

Injectable hydrogel protects right ventricle of heart

Hydrogels mitigate negative remodeling in right heart failure.

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Type 2 diabetes affects vertebral disc behavior

Type 2 diabetes alters annulus fibrosus fiber deformation in UCD-T2DM rats.

This image, taken on Aug. 5, 2023, shows a blend of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the intensely hot material in flares and which is colorized in red and orange. (cr: NASA/GSFC/SDO)

New research uncovers significant number of slow-building solar flares

New research by a team led by UC San Diego astrophysics graduate student Aravind Bharathi Valluvan has discovered a significant number of slow-building solar...

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