Charge storage device created at California NanoSystems Institute is vast improvement over existing models.
UC Davis researchers breeding new strawberry varieties
The UC Davis Strawberry Breeding Program has been averaging one new variety per year since 1968 that it will produce and make available for sale to commercial growers.
UC Santa Cruz student entrepreneurs headed for major international trade show
Robotic camera developers will join the UC delegation to the world's biggest industrial fair, Hannover Messe.
High-tech sandbox puts research in the palm of your hands
Campus innovations, such as an augmented reality sandbox from UC Davis, featured at an NSF exhibition on Capitol Hill.
Searching the deep sea for new antibiotics
In the face of rising drug resistance, UC San Diego scientists are on a voyage to find never-studied bacteria.
Lasers could make the Internet faster – and cleaner
Tiny lasers could overcome the current speed limits on the Internet and lower the information revolution's carbon footprint, UC San Diego researchers say.
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.
UC Davis graduate develops new breast cancer test
Alumna and breast cancer survivor Angela Courtney has developed a simple urine test she hopes will help women around the world.
UC Berkeley professors, alumni create startup to combat money in politics
UpRise Campaigns seeks to disrupt the political status quo by streamlining campaigns.
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.
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.
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.