UC Berkeley |

Now humans can navigate by sonar

Physicists use graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones, enabling people to mimic bats or dolphins’ ability to gauge distance and speed by using sound.
California Magazine |

Spinning silk sans spiders

It took a lot of spiders for Berkeley and UCSF alums to create a synthetic silk that's virtually identical to the real deal.
UC Santa Cruz |

A visionary, a genius, and the human genome

In 2000, two dogged researchers defied the odds to become the first in the world to assemble the DNA sequence of the human genome.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Leaving on a biofueled jet plane

Researchers develop a process to create drop-in aviation biofuel that won't gel at the low temperatures of the stratosphere.
UC San Diego |

3-D printed rocket engine aims for flight record

Student engineering team is shooting for a 10,000-foot flight at upcoming rocket competition.
UCLA |

Humanoid robot flexes its muscles at international competition

Robotics expert's team seeks to build a robot that can go places where humans cannot.
UC Riverside |

Building a race car for the future

Underdog status doesn't stop engineering students from entering global design competition.
UC Newsroom |

Students design mobile apps with social flavor

With support from the UC Global Food Initiative, this year’s CITRIS Mobile App Challenge added a new dimension: finding ways to nutritiously and sustainably feed people.
UCLA |

Finding strategies to recruit, retain women, minorities as computer majors

Tech companies are funding research to find strategies to recruit and retain women and minorities in computer science majors.
UC Berkeley |

Smartphone microscope automates detection of parasites in blood

CellScope technology could help revive efforts to wipe out diseases in Africa by providing critical information to health providers in the field.
UC Merced |

A more secure cloud for mobile users

Encryption system allows smartphone and tablet users to store data in one or multiple clouds without using a lot of a mobile device’s resources.
UC Irvine |

Zapping away space junk

A solution right out of sci-fi: shooting space debris with a laser mounted on the International Space Station.