A team of astronomers probing the activities of a pair of colliding galaxies has been startled to discover that the merger has resulted in a nest of a dozen or more extremely powerful supernova explosions, comparable to the most powerful ever observed.
For severals years, some political scientists and othrs have argued that group decisions such as elections are impossible to anticipate--even if the preferences of the voters are well established and the decision-making rules are set.
The University of California, San Diego was rated among the nation's top "high impact" research universities between 1993-1997, according to a report produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
Teens who smoke, but want to quit can now receive help from the California Smokers' Helpline, a free, statewide, telephone-based tobacco cessation program developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Cancer Center and funded through the California Department of Health Services.
Although the giddy laughter produced by "Tickle-Me-Elmo" can be traced to electronic gadgetry in the doll itself, little is known about why humans smil, laugh and otherwise squirm when tickled.
An Alliance of major research and technology enterprises based in San Diego, and administered by the University of California, San Diego, has been created to foster and expand the region's global leadership in science and technology.
University of California, San Diego seeks Public Information Representative.
A multi-center partnership led by the University of California, San Diego has been named as one of two awardees for the National Science Foundation's new Parterships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program.
It's probably the single most important chemical reaction in the biological world. Indeed, all life derives its energy from photosynthesis.
Contrary to popular beliefs, female chimpanzees routinely sneak away for what could be dangerous liaisons with males from neighboring communities. If their secret activities are discovered by the males of her community, they could be beaten, and any offspring sired outside the community killed.
Clouds of primordial gas located near the outer reaches of the Universe appear to be infant galaxies whose behaviors are surprisingly similar to their grown-up counterparts, including our own Milky Way. According to new studies by astrophysicists at University of California, San Diego, the fact that these protogalaxies form relatively thick disks that rotate as rapidly as the mature gallaxies we see today contradicts accepted theory.
A class of chemicals that's virtually identical to sooty sand found on most beaches may one day provide the basis for a new generation of efficient and environmentally friendly fluorescent lighting for homes, computer laptop displays and television sets.
Go ask Alice, and she'd tell you the objects in the mirror are so real she could literally cross over into her looking-glass world and touch them. Now, neuroscientists from the University of California, San Diego have discovered a small group of patients with certain brain lesions who share the same beliefs about mirrors as Alice.
Researhers from the UCSD School of Medicine report the first successful use of gene therapy to achieve partial recovery from spinal cord injuries.
Researchers have found a way of controlling a tailor-made version of a protein that gives the glow to the Pacific Northwest jellyfish. The discovery not only sheds light on the inner workings of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) of the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, it also suggests a potential new way for storing and accessing computer memories in packages the size of a single molecule.
UCSD Chemists Create Polymer "Mirror" for a variety of "Time Reversal" Optical Tasks.
The University of California, San Diego Task Force on K-12 Outreach will sponsor a symposium July 30 at 10 a.m., featuring some of the nation's top experts on education outreach efforts to under served children.
In a surprising twist, a team of neurobiologists at the University of California, San Diego has discovered that a powerful strategy used by artificial neural networks for learning and memory has a counterpart in a living brain.
In a classic ground war, hordes of Argentine ants are now on the march, from coastal California citrus groves to city kitchens, through suburban backyards and into nearby natural habitats.
Coral reefs have long been known for their unparalleled beauty and for serving as home to a wide variety of fishes and plants. Now scientists at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography are discovering that the reefs also hold a precise record of past climate.
With the aid of light pulsating from a star, the creation of organic molecules that may ultimately lead to the formation of life could be happening throughout the universe in a relatively simple process.
Thanks to clean-up and pollution prevention efforts, San Diego Bay is cleaner and attracting more marine life. Among the increasing population are borer worms that dine on the wooden pilings and fenders that support many of the piers along the Bay. One solution may be a new design created at UC San Diego and approved by the San Diego Unified Port District : pilings are made from molded hollow tubes of advanced composite materials including glass fiber and vinyl ester resin.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis, scheduled for launch on the STS-86 mission on Sept. 25, will support the third and final flight of KidSat (short for Kid's Satellite program), NASA's pilot education program that uses an electronic still camera aboard the Shuttle to bring the frontiers of space exploration to a growing number of U.S. middle school classrooms via the Internet.
To loosely paraphrase Shylock, the lead character from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, bleeding is something we all do, regardless of heritage. So it is with clotting, a process that in the parlance of the theater, prevents bleeding from lowering the final curtain on us all.
Cartilage is the body's shock absorber, a cushion of durable tissue that protects the knee from a lifetime of walking, bending and running. Now a team of bioengineers at the UC San Diego School of Engineering has described in detail for the first time what happens to each of these regions when cartilage is squeezed and flattened as it absorbs impact.
A workshop on U.S.-Mexican border policy, featuring some of the region's top experts on drug control and immigration control, will be held Oct. 17 from 1:30-5:30 p.m. at the University of California, San Diego.
A dozen widely diverse research and instructional projects--spanning the arts, humanities and social sciences to engineering, natural sciences and environmentl studies -- will benefit from a new $2.4 million gift of computing equipment and other resources from Intel Corp. to the University of California, San Diego.
Through the leadership of the University of California, San Diego, a new consortium of twelve prestigious academic libraries in the Pacific Rim has been formed to facilitate access to scholarly research materials through various digital networks.
The University of California, San Diego, San Diego State University, and the University of San Diego have joined together to establish a collaborative, community-wide effort to provide innovative after-school activities for K-12 kids
Long before recycling and the greening of corporate America became politically correct, there was Sea Worl, the theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold.
A little-known brain wave thought to be found in only small percentage of people is instead sitting inside most of our heads and could one day become a key for understanding connections between movement and vision.
A portable,hand-held biosensor capable of detecting a wide range of medically important chemical reactions has been created by a team of researchers from The Scripps Research Insitute of La Jolla, Calif. and the University of California, San Diego.
The great formal gardens at Versailles, with their geometrically precise parterres and topiry-lined allees, are usually noted for teir restrained classicism and elegance, not for their politics.
Chemists from the University of California, San Diego will measure and analyze the oxygen content of winds flowing from the Sun as part of a $216 million international space mission scheduled for launch in 2001.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found the first gene defects associated with rheumatoid arthritis, a common and debilitating disease affecting 1 percent of the world's population. Mutant p53 genes were found in synovial tissue taken from the joints of patients with severe, chronic rheumatoid arthritis (RA)who were undergoing joint replacement surgery.
With twin goals of furthering her research in mathematics and pushing out the frontiers of education for inner-city children, Katherine Okikiolu of the University of California, San Diego, has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
President Clinton will present the nation's highest science and engineering honor, the National Medal of Science, to Marshall N. Rosenbluth, a nuclear physicist at the University of California, San Diego. Rosenbluth is one of fourteen oustanding scientists, inventors and business leaders being honored by the President on December 16 at a ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building.
In the first successful attempt to make engineered tissue without synthetic scaffolding, a team of researchers created a blood vessel made entirely from human cells.
A study examining U.S. mortality rates has found nearly a three-fold increase in deaths from medication errors over a ten-year period, adding fuel to the growing concern that the nation's quality of health care may be suffering because of the shift to managed care.
Engineers have long tried to rid their designs of any disorderly or chaotic signals in favor of regular, simple motions on which to build computers and communication systems. This traditional approach may soon be challenged by a newly-discovered capability to communicate using chaotic signals from one laser to another.
In a move that researchers hope will usher in a new era of wireless communication, a multi-university team led by the University of California, San Diego has received an award worth up to $4.5 million from the Department of Defense's Army Research Office to build a communications system based on the principles of "chaos."
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $13.3 million grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Cancer Center to study how diet might help prevent a recurrence of breast cancer.
New Orleans, LA--Re-living in your mind a brief, though stressful event--like being cut off on the freeway or insulted by a stranger--not only is unpleasant, it can result in a temporary increase in you blood pressure, even days after the original experience.
If you're in the media, you know how important it is to find the precise science expert for a deadline story or feature. That effort has been made a lot easier with the creation of the University of California Science Experts directory, now available on the World Wide Web.
Researchers at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have idenified a new inhibitor molecule that is the first to target kinesins, a large and important family of motor proteins that play a central role in intracellular transpor and cell division. The new compound, call adociasulfate-2 (AS-2), is derived from a Haliclona (also called Adocia) species of marine sponge found in the western Pacific.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine report an association between the use of prescription sleeping pills and an increased risk of death. The research findings are published in the May 1, 1998, issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.
For the first time, a specific pathway for the launch of a counterattack against HIV, with cells called macrophages stimulated by CD40L to produce proteins which bolster T lymphocytes ("T cells"), scientists from the University of California, San Diego and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (April 1998).
A study published in the May 28 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry demonstrates that Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) in combination with group therapy is more effective than group therapy alone in treating HIV-positive patients diagnosed with major depression. The study also shows that Prozac did not interact significantly with any HIV medications and produced minimal side effects. Results of the study might lead to better compliance by patients already taking multiple drug therapies.
The use of adult disposable paper undergarments dramatically exceeds the use of infant disposable diapers in the United States. Why? Incontinence -- the involuntary loss of urine -- one of the most prevalent, yet least discussed problems among women today. But no woman should have to suffer, physically or emotionally, from incontinence, says Charles Nager, M.D., an associate professor in the UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine who specializes in the field of urogynecology.
1) Sleeping Pills - Getting a good nights sleep may prove hazardous to your health if you use prescription sleeping pills every night, according to a new study from researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine. 2) Pain and Seniors -- Many seniors believe that pain is a normal part of growing older and that they must learn to live with it.
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