Science & Technology

The chickpea, also known as the garbanzo bean, is the world’s second-most widely grown legume crop after the soybean, making it a major component of the world’s diet. It is an important crop especially for small-farm operators in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. An international team of 49 scientists from 23 organizations in 10 countries have […]

In this technology-driven world, there are many sites dedicated to providing different types of information to help people in their daily lives. Lifehacker offers a variety of ways to “hack” your lifestyle, leading to better habits, better health and better living. They also offer multiple tech tips of their own. What is Lifehacker? Lifehacker is […]

With Valentine’s Day just recently passed and spring upon us, you may be feeling closer than ever to your romantic partner. Most couples take this season to spend time together and do things they like or invest more energy in the common ground they have. But it turns out that activities and interests are not […]

In a recent multidisciplinary article published at the end of January in Nature Communications, lead author Peter Kaiser, professor of biochemistry at UC Irvine (UCI), along with co-leader Richard Lathrop and many others, announced the discovery of a potential new target for a cure for cancer. Kaiser’s research focused on a specific protein, called p53, […]

A little while ago, I wrote about how amazing plants are, and how they have been here longer than us, and will be here long after we are gone. I also promised that I would have some choice words for those individuals who did not believe in evolution’s capacity to bring about these amazing organisms. […]

In some ways, understanding the effects of global warming comes down to measuring how microbes respond to warming soils. Through their incessant work in breaking down plant and animal matter, microorganisms drive the respiration of gases such as carbon dioxide from the planet’s thin “skin” of soil cover. These emissions account for more than 10 […]

Let’s all be honest with ourselves. Drinking is a reality of college and a lot of times, college students do not always make the best decisions. Driving after a long night of partying or hanging out at the bars may seem like a good idea, especially if you think you’ve sobered up in the early […]

Even if you don’t believe in evolution, you can’t deny that there are some truly amazing organisms that populate our planet. And if you don’t believe in evolution, I have some choice words for you … another time perhaps. When you ask someone to think of the most majestic creature on earth, perhaps they will […]

Ole Andreassen, a professor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, published an article on Feb. 7 in The American Journal of Human Genetics in which he definitively connected high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) with schizophrenia. The news of the connection between these diseases is not new; it is a well-established fact that […]

As an undergraduate scientist, amateur cyclist and chronic procrastinator, I concentrate a lot of my thoughts on the subject of time. I’m curious about many things related to time: the most pressing of these concerns is usually finding out where all of mine went and what to do with what little remains. President’s Day weekend […]

It’s that time of year again. The end of the second week of the year’s shortest month is rolling around and people are thinking a little bit less about school, and a little bit more about a story with birds and bees. I always found that particular metaphor funny because apart from some vague similarities […]

In a recently published study, researchers from the UCSD School of Medicine and scientists from the San Diego-based biotech company Viacyte, Inc. investigated methods to create endocrine cells, specifically pancreatic T-cells, which are important in treating diabetes through their production of insulin. The study compared two methods of generating endocrine cells from stem cells, in […]