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The bacteria turning waste plastic into painkillers
BBC | September 25, 2025

Earlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made headlines. A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-deriv...

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China sets renewables goal it can easily surpass, analysts say
Reuters | September 25, 2025

Quotes MAE and GPS faculty member Michael Davidson...

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How Effective Is Corporate Cybersecurity Training? Not Very, It Seems
The Wall Street Journal | September 4, 2025

Covers work from the research group of computer science professor Stefan Savage, supported by UC San Diego Health....

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13 Bizarre Deep Sea Animals That Are Stranger (and Cooler) Than Science Fiction
ZME Science | September 3, 2025

The deep sea has a reputation for producing "monsters." These animals aren't curiosities from a horror show; they are masterworks of evoluti...

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How Robotics, AI, and Automation are Changing Our Future
Association for Advancing Automation | September 2, 2025

Dr. Henrik Christensen, Qualcomm Chancellor?s Chair in Robot Systems at UC San Diego, offers a deep look into the future of robotics and AI. In this i...

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Phishing training is pretty useless, researchers find
Slashdot | August 17, 2025

Collaborative research from Stefan Savage and UC San Diego Health presented at the Blackhat conference....

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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
WIRED | August 16, 2025

Pick up of a Quanta story that features research by Rose Yu....

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Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why.
The New York Times | July 22, 2025

Scientists are starting to see that the biology of cancer in nonsmokers differs from cancers seen in people with a smoking history--and may require di...

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Here's how air pollution may trigger lung cancer
Science News | July 21, 2025

Air pollution may steer lung cells toward cancer ­-- even in people who've never smoked a cigarette. People living in high pollution areas may rack u...

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First earthquake, then fire: UC San Diego researchers test steel building
KPBS | July 17, 2025

Smoke billowed out of a steel-framed building off Pomerado Road Thursday morning. It was part of research by UC San Diego and California Polytechnic S...

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Shake and Bake: Scientists study earthquakes and burning buildings in Scripps Ranch
NBC San Diego | July 17, 2025

UC San Diego?s shake table was used by Cal Poly SLO researchers Thursday to start a fire to examine how it would act burning specific materials during...

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Smoke from experimental fire in Scripps Ranch will be visible over I-15 and I-805 today
San Diego Union Tribune | July 17, 2025

C San Diego will set part of a 10-story building in Scripps Ranch on fire at 10 a.m. Thursday to help researchers find better ways to make such struct...

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