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Your phone camera might have another useful feature beyond taking selfies.

LOS ANGELES — The University of California, facing record surges in applications, is aiming to increase seats for California students by as many as 33,000 by 2030 — the equivalent of building a new campus.

Does legalization of recreational cannabis increase youth consumption?   According to a new research published in the May 26, 2022 online issue of Addiction, yes it does.

When it comes to excessive expletives, the league isn’t messing around. But why?

SAN DIEGO — A UC San Diego physics graduate student pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday to attempted murder of a peace officer stemming from an incident last month when a CHP officer was shot during a struggle over his gun along a busy freeway in Mission Valley.

Call it the electric T-shirt. Or, as the researchers at the University of California San Diego have dubbed it, the “wearable microgrid.”

SAN DIEGO — Barbara Walter, a political scientist at UC San Diego, has been studying civil wars for 30 years. She understands the script they follow: how they ignite, how they escalate, how they end.

The NFL is giving UC San Diego $500,000 to study if cannabis can be used to help athletes manage pain from injuries and recover more quickly, reported local media.The NFL awarded the contract to UCSD’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, to co

Shortly after entering orbit around Jupiter in 2016, the spacecraft Juno captured images of huge cyclones whirling in geometric patterns at the planet's poles, an unexpected finding that dazzled scientists.