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The Trump Justice Department alleges that UC San Diego's medical school illegally used race in admissions, which the department claims discriminated against white and Asian applicants.

A study by University of California, San Diego researchers found that e-bike injuries in California are increasing 'exponentially'. The analysis used data from the California Highway Patrol’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System to examine collisions involving electric bikes.

Astronomers discovered the dimmest directly imaged planet around Beta Pictoris using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and NASA’s Webb Space Telescope. The cold gas giant, 100 times fainter than known planets, orbits a 20-million-year-old star system 63 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers discovered a faint, cold gas giant planet orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris after 11 years of observation. Two independent teams using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Webb Space Telescope confirmed the dimmest directly imaged exoplanet, which is 100 times fainter than previously known planets and offers insights into planetary system formation.

Google and researchers at the University of California San Diego are repurposing retired smartphones into cloud servers by using their motherboards in a low-carbon computing system. The project, called phone cluster computing, aims to launch a data center with 2,000 Pixel smartphones in 2026 to provide low-cost cloud computing while reducing reliance on new hardware.

Noted neurobiologist Chih-Ying Su, who studies the sense of smell using fruit flies and mosquitoes, has left her position as faculty vice-chair at the University of California San Diego to join an institution in China. The article highlights this move as part of a broader list of weekend news stories.

Chih-Ying Su, a neurobiologist specializing in olfactory research using fruit flies and mosquitoes, has left her position at the University of California San Diego to join the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences as a senior investigator. Her lab studies how olfactory receptor neurons process odor information.

The oceanfront home where Dr. Seuss wrote 'The Cat in the Hat' in La Jolla, California, sold for $9 million. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom 5,004-square-foot property was listed for $9.95 million and purchased by a local children's bookstore owner.

New research from the University of California, San Diego reveals that tens of millions of Americans are intentionally consuming tiny amounts of psychoactive substances, with microdosing on cannabis being more prevalent than previously known. The conversation has centered on psychedelics like LSD or magic mushrooms. Microdosing is a growing trend among U.S. adults.

Raw sewage from the Tijuana River, contaminated with industrial chemicals and trash, has been flowing into California since 2018, causing health issues for residents like Steve Egger. The U.S. and Mexico recently agreed to upgrade wastewater infrastructure to address the crisis.