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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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UC Davis |

Innovative new technology helps seniors age in place

Interactive tech can help older adults live alone and ease caregiver fatigue.
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UC San Diego |

Dogs understand words from soundboard buttons, study reveals

The study is the first empirical paper to emerge from the world’s largest longitudinal project on button-trained pets.
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UCLA |

Dark matter could have helped make supermassive black holes in the early universe

Radiation from dark matter may have kept hydrogen gas hot enough to condense into black holes.
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UC Santa Barbara |

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down

It’s not quite heat vision, but mosquitoes do use thermal infrared to find human hosts.

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