Imperial Valley News Center
Camp gives middle school girls hands-on experience in STEM fields
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- Written by Sarah Yang
San Francisco, California - “Girls in Engineering” summer camp for middle school students, organized by the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering. The goal of the program is to inspire the next generation of female engineers by providing 5th-, 6th- and 7th-grade girls a taste of different careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The program was developed by senior female faculty, staff and graduate students at the College of Engineering.
How To Grow Back The Back - Engineered Cartilage Surfaces
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- Written by Wallace Ravven
Berkeley, California - You’re going to shrink today. You did yesterday, and you will again tomorrow. By bedtime every night, you’re likely to be about an inch shorter than when you got up. But assuming you sleep lying down, each evening’s rest restores you to full height.
We’re Not Alone but the Universe May be Less Crowded than We Think
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- Written by Jan Zverina
San Diego, California - There may be far fewer galaxies further out in the Universe than might be expected, suggests a new study based on simulations conducted using the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, with resulting data transferred to SDSC Cloud at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, for future analysis.
Statins Linked to Lower Aggression in Men, but Higher in Women
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- Written by Scott LaFee
San Diego, California - Statins are a hugely popular drug class used to manage blood cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. Previous studies had raised questions about adverse behavioral changes with statins, such as irritability or violence, but findings with statins have been inconsistent. In the first randomized trial to look at statin effects on behavior, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that aggressive behavior typically declined among men placed on statins (compared to placebo), but typically increased among women placed on statins.
Exit Dinosaurs, Enter Fishes
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- Written by Robert Monroe
San Diego, California - A pair of paleobiologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego have determined that the world’s most numerous and diverse vertebrates – ray-finned fishes – began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided by the mass extinction event that killed off dinosaurs.
Chemists design a quantum-dot spectrometer
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- Written by Anne Trafton
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Instruments that measure the properties of light, known as spectrometers, are widely used in physical, chemical, and biological research. These devices are usually too large to be portable, but MIT scientists have now shown they can create spectrometers small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera, using tiny semiconductor nanoparticles called quantum dots.
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