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Researchers Use a Physical Device to Take Over Electronics in a Boeing 737
August 13, 2026

Physical access to an aircraft has not typically been considered a cybersecurity risk – but it...

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Corn Stalks. It’s What’s for Dinner … If You’re a Microbe.
August 7, 2026

Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the thr...

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Puppy Bots and Bot Tour Guides: Inside a Human-Robot Interaction Class at UC San Diego
August 6, 2026

A robot that dances on command. A robot that behaves like a puppy – sometimes happy, sometimes...

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With ARPA-H Award, UC San Diego Engineers will Develop a Soft, Autonomous Robot for Stroke Care
August 6, 2026

A research team led by engineers at UC San Diego was awarded up to $22.9M from ARPA-H to develo...

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UC San Diego Engineers Use Campus Supercomputing Infrastructure to Better Understand Bone-Like Minerals
July 31, 2026

UC San Diego materials scientists and engineers have found a better way to understand and ...

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NSF Funds Major Center at UC San Diego to Make New Quantum Materials
July 30, 2026

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded University of California San Diego researcher...

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Flipping the Switch: Triton Racing Goes Electric
July 30, 2026

After nearly 30 years of designing and building a formula race car powered by an internal combustion...

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Insect-inspired electronic nose: turning semiconductor chips into olfactory sensors
July 27, 2026

Bioengineers at UC San Diego integrated the olfactory receptor of an insect called a jumping bristle...

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New Wearable Ring Tracks Glucose, Ketone and Other Biomarkers in Sweat Simultaneously
July 24, 2026

Engineers created a smart ring that simultaneously and continuously monitors up to four different ch...

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UC San Diego Electrical Engineer Receives Popov Prize for Research in Approximation Theory
July 24, 2026

Rahul Parhi, faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University...

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2 Million Cars with Anti-Theft Systems Installed by Dealers are at Higher Risk of Theft
July 21, 2026

At least 2.2 million cars on the road today are vulnerable to an attack that allows thieves to lock ...

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Bioengineering Alumnus Launches Venture Capital Fund Focused on San Diego MedTech Startups
July 16, 2026

Alumnus Garrett Smith is bringing his decades of experience across the innovation ecosystem back to ...

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Drug Candidate Could Help L-Dopa Work Better for Patients with Parkinson’s
July 15, 2026

For Parkinson's patients, the drug that restores movement can stop working reliably and cause in...

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Open-Access Genetic Map Provides Reference for What Almost Every Stem Cell Gene Does
July 13, 2026

Bioengineers have developed a genome-scale reference map that details how individual genes cont...

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New XPS Instrument at UC San Diego Gives Researchers a Closer Look at Material Surfaces
July 13, 2026

A new XPS machine at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute is helping researchers advance work in batt...

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NSF Deploys $108M for Quantum Metamaterials as Its Own Funding Faces Proposed Cuts
Tech Times | August 2, 2026

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced on July 30 that it will deploy $108 million across six elite university research centers to develop the...

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NSF Awards UC San Diego $18 Million MRSEC Grant for Quantum Materials Development in $108 Million National Materials Initiative
Quantum Computing Report | August 1, 2026

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) an $18 million, six-year grant to fund a ...

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A New Smart Ring Uses Finger Sweat to Track Health
CNET | July 28, 2026

Today's smart rings use tiny built-in sensors, such as photoplethysmography light sensors, to collect biophysical data, including your heart rate and ...

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Researchers Use a Physical Device to Take Over Electronics in a Boeing 737
August 13, 2026

Physical access to an aircraft has not typically been considered a cybersecurity risk – but it...

Read More

Corn Stalks. It’s What’s for Dinner … If You’re a Microbe.
August 7, 2026

Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the thr...

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Puppy Bots and Bot Tour Guides: Inside a Human-Robot Interaction Class at UC San Diego
August 6, 2026

A robot that dances on command. A robot that behaves like a puppy – sometimes happy, sometimes...

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With ARPA-H Award, UC San Diego Engineers will Develop a Soft, Autonomous Robot for Stroke Care
August 6, 2026

A research team led by engineers at UC San Diego was awarded up to $22.9M from ARPA-H to develo...

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UC San Diego Engineers Use Campus Supercomputing Infrastructure to Better Understand Bone-Like Minerals
July 31, 2026

UC San Diego materials scientists and engineers have found a better way to understand and ...

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