- Bluetooth signals can be used to identify and track smartphones - It’s the first time researchers have demonstrated it’s feasible to track individuals using Bluetooth https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/Bluetoothfingerprints 57 comments technology
- 1 million Youth Became Daily Tobacco Users, Most Used JUUL E-cigarettes. Increase in tobacco use among underaged U.S. youth parallels 1990s epidemic https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/1-million-youth-became-daily-tobacco-users-most-used-juul-e-cigarettes 2528 comments science
- Multi-Tasking Wearable Continuously Monitors Glucose, Alcohol, and Lactate https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/multi-tasking-wearable-continuously-monitors-glucose-alcohol-and-lactate 15 comments technology
- Researches have developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer, ADHD and other neurological diseases and disorders—by recording closeups of their eye. The app uses a near-infrared camera to track how a person’s pupil changes in size https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/eye-catching-smartphone-app-could-make-it-easy-to-screen-for-neurological-disease-at-home 28 comments science
- Daily Activities Like Washing Dishes Reduced Heart Disease Risk in Senior Women. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/daily-activities-like-washing-dishes-reduced-heart-disease-risk-in-senior-women 40 comments science
- Researchers can predict what syllables a bird will sing—and when it will sing them—by reading electrical signals in its brain. Having the ability to predict a bird’s vocal behavior from its brain activity is an early step toward building vocal prostheses for humans who have lost the ability to speak https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/decoding-birds-brain-signals-into-syllables-of-song 2 comments science
- A Climate in Crisis Calls for Investment in Direct Air Capture. If an emergency direct air capture program were to commence in 2025 and receive investment of 1.2–1.9% of global GDP annually it would remove 2.2–2.3 gigatons of CO2 by the year 2050 and 13–20 gigatons of CO2 by 2075. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/a-climate-in-crisis-calls-for-investment-in-direct-air-capture-news-research-finds 26 comments science
- Researchers discover clue to how to protect neurons and encourage their growth. By inhibiting a particular family of enzymes, it may be possible to develop new therapies for treating neurodegenerative diseases from glaucoma to Alzheimer’s. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/researchers-discover-clue-to-how-to-protect-neurons-and-encourage-their-growth 5 comments science
- New study is the first to demonstrate that honey bees use a contagious warning signal that resists fake news to deter attacking hornets, that even "murder" hornets recognize as a warning to back off, that can lead to a counter attack in which bees surrounds the hornet, forming a "heat ball". https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/i-see-you-honey-bees-use-contagious-and-honest-visual-signal-to-deter-attacking-hornets 3 comments science
- Hornets are ferocious bee predators that have invaded multiple countries around the world. Honey bees have evolved a warning signal that has been shown for the first time to be visually driven, contagious, and resistant to fake news, across the bee colony to deter attacking hornets. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/i-see-you-honey-bees-use-contagious-and-honest-visual-signal-to-deter-attacking-hornets 3 comments science
- Loss of Smell and Taste Validated as COVID-19 Symptoms in Patients with High Recovery Rate https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/loss-of-smell-and-taste-validated-as-covid-19-symptoms-in-patients-with-high-recovery-rate 1915 comments science
- How Brain Biology Promotes Starvation in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa. Results support the idea that the brain in anorexia is able to recognize hunger signals, but individuals with the disorder may lack an intuitive drive to consume food https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/how-brain-biology-promotes-starvation-in-patients-with-anorexia-nervosa 6 comments science
- Researchers Can Guess Your Age Based on Your Microbes New understanding of how our microbiomes change as we age sets the stage for future research on the role microbes play in accelerating or decelerating the aging process and influencing age-related diseases. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/more-than-just-a-carnival-trick-researchers-can-guess-your-age-based-on-your-microbes 6 comments science
- Synthetically engineered mosquitos could neutralize dengue virus infection https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/mosquitoes-engineered-to-repel-dengue-virus 6 comments science
- Twitter may have been a source of military intelligence for governments, new study shows. As techniques for real-time mining of social media data become commercialized, they will be integrated into military planning. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/data-from-behind-enemy-lines-how-russia-may-have-used-twitter-to-seize-crimea 15 comments science
- Shutdown of Coal-Fired Plants in U.S. Saves Lives and Improves Crop Yields. Research found that between 2005 and 2016, the shutdown of coal-fired units saved an estimated 26,610 lives and 570 million bushels of corn, soybeans and wheat in their immediate vicinities https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/shutdown-of-coal-fired-plants-in-u.s-saves-lives-and-improves-crop-yields 1162 comments science
- Microplastics a million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, finds new study, which estimates the ocean is contaminated by 8.3 million pieces of so-called mini-microplastics per cubic meter of water. Previous studies of larger pieces found only 10 pieces per cubic meter. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/microplastics-a-million-times-more-abundant-in-the-ocean-than-previously-thought-scripps-study-sugg 292 comments science
- Cardiologists and physicists have developed a machine learning algorithm to predict the life expectancy in heart failure patients. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/artificial-intelligence-tool-predicts-life-expectancy-in-heart-failure-patients 7 comments compsci
- Study Identifies Religious Bias Against Refugees. The bias is weakest among those who self-identify as non-Christian, non-white and Democrat, compared to self-identified Republicans, Christians and whites. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/study-identifies-religious-bias-against-refugees 144 comments science
- Researchers Discover a New Mechanism Used by Bacteria to Evade Antibiotics https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/researchers_discover_a_new_mechanism_used_by_bacteria_to_evade_antibiotics 5 comments science
- Accumulation of fat in the brain could be an early, druggable, driver of Alzheimer's disease https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/untangling_tau_researchers_find_a_druggable_target_for_treating_alzheimers_disease 7 comments science
- Researchers tested more than 500,000 chemical compounds for their ability to inhibit the malaria parasite at an earlier lifecycle stage than most current drugs, finding 631 promising ones that could form the basis for new malaria prevention drugs, which they are making open source and not patented. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/half_a_million_tests_and_many_later_new_buzz_about_a_malaria_prevention_drug 362 comments science
- New research quantifies what the social cost of carbon will be for the globe’s nearly 200 countries, finding that the countries that incur large fractions of the global cost consistently include India, China, Saudi Arabia and the United States. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/new_research_forecasts_u.s._among_top_nations_to_suffer_economic_damage_from_climate_change 3 comments worldnews
- The Sun might emit less radiation by mid-century, giving planet Earth a chance to warm a bit more slowly but not halt the trend of human-induced climate change. The cooldown is the result of what scientists call a grand minimum, a periodic event during which less UV radiation makes it to Earth. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/reduced_energy_from_the_sun_might_occur_by_mid_century 30 comments science
- New Device for Ultra-Accurate Genome Sequencing of Single Human Cells http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/uc_san_diego_scientists_create_device_for_ultra_accurate_genome_sequencing 4 comments science
- Common Acid Reflux Medications Promote Chronic Liver Disease http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/common_acid_reflux_medications_promote_chronic_liver_disease 7 comments worldnews
- Common Acid Reflux Medications Promote Chronic Liver Disease http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/common_acid_reflux_medications_promote_chronic_liver_disease 116 comments science
- UC San Diego students and researchers have produced the world’s first algae-based, renewable flip flops; a projected cost of $3 a pair, the impact of this campus innovation could be revolutionary http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/a_flip_flop_revolution 4 comments science
- Kids Praised for Being Smart Are More Likely to Cheat http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/kids-praised-for-being-smart-are-more-likely-to-cheat 91 comments science
- Neurobehavioral effects found in children exposed to flower pesticides. Children examined sooner after the flower harvest displayed lower performance on most measures, such as attention, self-control, visuospatial processing and sensorimotor (eye-hand coordination) http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/dread_of_roses_neurobehavioral_effects_found_in_children_exposed_to_flower 3 comments science
- Brain Tumor Cells Will Shrink, Die Without Cholesterol, Study Finds http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/depriving_deadly_brain_tumors_of_cholesterol_may_be_their_achilles_heel 6 comments science
- Researchers Create Means to Monitor Anthropogenic Global Warming in Real Time http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/researchers_create_means_to_monitor_anthropogenic_global_warming_in_real_ti 6 comments science
- How the Brain Makes–and Breaks–a Habit http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/how_the_brain_makes_and_breaks_a_habit 13 comments science
- Engineers 3D-print a New Lifelike Liver Tissue for Drug Screening http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/engineers_3d_print_a_new_lifelike_liver_tissue_for_drug_screening 3 comments science
- Electrical Engineers Break Power and Distance Barriers for Fiber Optic Communication http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/electrical_engineers_break_power_and_distance_barriers_for_fiber_optic_comm 8 comments technology
- Crystals ripple in response to light: First propagating surface phonon polaritons in a van der Waals crystal http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/crystals_ripple_in_response_to_light 4 comments science
- New antibiotic found in the ocean proves to hinder anthrax http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/compound_discovered_at_sea_shows_potency_against_anthrax 6 comments science
- Backs To The Future: Aymara Language And Gesture Point To Mirror-Image View Of Time http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/backsfuture06.asp 18 comments linguistics
- Study finds twist to the story of the number line http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/study_finds_twist_to_the_story_of_the_number_line/ 5 comments math
- Computer Scientists Take Over Electronic Voting Machine with New Programming Technique http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-09electronicvoting.asp 6 comments netsec