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Can we use Wi-Fi to see through walls?

We use Wi-Fi to stay connected, but UC's Yasamin Mostofi shows that Wi-Fi can also be used to sense the world around us – even behind walls.

Science Today |

Eye drops to reverse cataracts

UC San Francisco’s Jason Gestwicki describes his lab’s work developing eye drops to reverse cataracts, a potential boon to millions of people who go blind every year in developing countries because they can't afford (or have access to) the current, successful surgical treatment.

The Daily Californian |

UC Berkeley professors, alumni create startup to combat money in politics

UpRise Campaigns seeks to disrupt the political status quo by streamlining campaigns.

UC Newsroom |

UC entrepreneurs win funding at first primeUC competition

Twenty of UC's most promising life-science startups competed for seed funding in the first primeUC competition at UCSF.

UC Riverside |

Making batteries with portobello mushrooms

Can mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time? Engineering researchers at UC Riverside think so.

UC Davis |

Invention helps California growers optimize water use

Technology developed at UC Davis is giving growers tools to help irrigate more effectively during the California drought and beyond.

UC Newsroom |

Sun and salt: how solar tech can help California’s drought

Researchers at UC Merced are turning to an unlikely ally to help solve the problem of water availability for California’s farmlands: the sun.