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A new (and surprising) way to use solar panels

In the middle of California's Central Valley, a new way to use solar panels could change how we think about clean energy and water. It’s a simple idea that people have talked about for decades, but only now is it finally being tested in real life.

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50 UC researchers elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science

UC faculty lead all universities in one of science’s highest honors — the most newly elected fellows to the world’s largest general scientific society.
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Is your brain aging faster than you are? Sleep may hold the key

A machine-learning model measures brain wave activity to calculate ‘brain age’ and relative dementia risk.
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What ‘Open Inquiry: UC Arts’ reveals about the future of arts education

A new exhibition of work by recent University of California alumni highlights UC's artistic legacy and shows California’s world-class public university is ready to step in as art schools across the country disappear.
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The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century

UC Santa Barbara wraps up the Big Bee Project, a pioneering, multicampus initiative to bring natural history collections into the century of AI, big data and networked databases.

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