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A new (and surprising) way to use solar panels

In the middle of California's Central Valley, a new way to use solar panels could change how we think about clean energy and water. It’s a simple idea that people have talked about for decades, but only now is it finally being tested in real life.

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Gaurav Sant, a UCLA professor of civil and environmental engineering and materials science and engineering.
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The University of California ranks No. 1 in higher education for U.S. patents

Researchers across the UC system produce, on average, five new discoveries each day.
A doctor looking at a patient's ultrasound while the patient reclines nearby
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There’s a more humane way to monitor Crohn’s and colitis patients

UCSF Health pioneers ultrasound in western U.S. for adults with bowel disease.
An older adult painting, hand on leaf decorative painting pictured
UC Riverside |

Older adults may achieve same cognition as undergrads

Learning multiple tasks led to cognition improvements that got better with the passage of time.
Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun, detail, 2017, oil on canvas. Reminiscent of the famous Botticelli painting of a woman in a clamshell, The Birth of Venus
UC Santa Barbara |

Harmonia Rosales recasts the Renaissance with West African tales from the same period

An exhibition of paintings that draw subject matter from the transatlantic slave trade and Yorùbá myths, originated at UC Santa Barbara, will soon visit Spelman College, an Historically Black College.

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