By Doug Ramsey, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego | February 5, 2021 Millions of people already use Fitbit and other devices to monitor and track a variety of personal health metrics. Now, a researcher at the University of California San Diego has published data indicating that analyzing voice signals can detect COVID-19 infection when compared with sample audio ... Continue Reading »
Engineering + Technology
Eavesdropping on cellular conversations
By Brian Bell, UC Irvine | February 17, 2021 An interdisciplinary team of biologists and mathematicians at the University of California, Irvine has developed a new tool to help decipher the language cells use to communicate with one another. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, the researchers introduce CellChat, a computational platform that enables ... Continue Reading »
Polymer film protects from electromagnetic radiation, signal interference
By Holly Ober, UC Riverside | February 22, 2021 As electronic devices saturate all corners of public and personal life, engineers are scrambling to find lightweight, mechanically stable, flexible, and easily manufactured materials that can shield humans from excessive electromagnetic radiation as well as prevent electronic devices from interfering with each other. In a ... Continue Reading »
New skin patch brings us closer to wearable, all-in-one health monitor
By Liezel Labios, UC San Diego | February 18, 2021 Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a soft, stretchy skin patch that can be worn on the neck to continuously track blood pressure and heart rate while measuring the wearer’s levels of glucose as well as lactate, alcohol or caffeine. It is the first wearable device that monitors ... Continue Reading »
Colloidal quantum dot lasers poised to come of age
Los Alamos National Laboratory | February 17, 2021 Recent progress in colloidal-quantum-dot research highlights the remaining challenges and opportunities in the rapidly developing field, which is poised to enable a wide array of new laser-based and LED-based technology applications. “These tiny specs of semiconductor matter can generate spectrally tunable lasing light, ... Continue Reading »
Applying quantum computing to a particle process
by Glenn Roberts Jr., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | February 12, 2021 A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used a quantum computer to successfully simulate an aspect of particle collisions that is typically neglected in high-energy physics experiments, such as those that occur at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The quantum ... Continue Reading »
Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time
Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego February 8, 2021—Systems designed to detect deepfakes --videos that manipulate real-life footage via artificial intelligence--can be deceived, computer scientists showed for the first time at the WACV 2021 conference, which took place online Jan. 5 to 9, 2021. Researchers showed detectors can be defeated by inserting inputs ... Continue Reading »
Making Masks Smarter and Safer Against COVID-19
A new tool for monitoring COVID-19 may one day be right under your nose. Researchers at the University of California San Diego are developing a color-changing test strip that can be stuck on a mask and used to detect SARS-CoV-2 in a user’s breath or saliva. The project, which received $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health, is aimed at providing simple, ... Continue Reading »
UC plans $11.5 million conversion of coroner’s office
By Tom Demeropolis – Senior Staff Reporter, Cincinnati Business CourierJan 8, 2021 The University of Cincinnati is planning a more than $11 million renovation of the building that currently houses the Hamilton County Coroner’s office as it moves its operations to a new facility in Blue Ash this year. UC is in the process of receiving back the ... Continue Reading »