UC San Diego |

Florentine 'patient' gets high-tech physical

Two doctoral students travel to Italy to assess the structural condition of one of Florence's landmarks, the Baptistery of St. John.
UC Irvine |

Overseeing your online afterlife

Jed Brubaker’s graduate research at UC Irvine guides Facebook’s new policy on postmortem account stewardship.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore Lab to restore touch to amputees

Lab will join collaborative research team that intends to build the world’s first neural system to enable naturalistic feeling and movements in prosthetic hands.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |

Startup promises safe lithium batteries

Venture capital backs company — co-founded by a Berkeley Lab scientist —developing a battery using a nonflammable electrolyte.
UC Berkeley |

1,000th solar suitcase is a beacon in developing world

In just a few years, this innovation has saved lives in places where light and power are rare commodities.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

California employers train service members for advanced manufacturing jobs

Labs, academia, government agencies and nonprofits are joining forces to to develop a pipeline to help service members and vets develop highly specialized skills.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |

Berkeley Lab’s Top 50 game-changing technologies for defeating poverty

Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies produces first-of-its-kind blueprint for sustainable global development.
UC San Francisco |

Neuroscientist wins prize for cochlear implant contributions

Michael Merzenich is among five winners of the Russ Prize, bioengineering’s highest honor.
Lawrence Livermore Lab |

Technology quickly traces source of tainted food

Contaminated food sickens 1 in 6 Americans every year. DNATrax traces the bad stuff back to its source.
UC Newsroom |

How songbirds may help build a better hearing aid

Avian ability to pinpoint 'signal' sounds inspires algorithm at the heart of a new type of auditory device.
UC Newsroom |

2014 across UC

In many ways, it was a very good year at the University of California's campuses and labs.
UCLA |

Lens-free microscope detects cancer at the cellular level

Researchers develop device that can do the work of pathology lab microscopes