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10/22/2018
Brain Cells Called Astrocytes Have Unexpected Role in Brain “Plasticity”

Salk researchers show protein made by astrocytes enables the brain’s maturation and regulates its flexibility.​

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10/18/2018
Robert W. Conn Among Four Leaders to Receive UCSD's Revelle Medal

Honorees recognized for helping establish UC San Diego as top research university

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10/16/2018
Missing Gamma-Ray Blobs Shed New Light on Dark Matter, Cosmic Magnetism

Astrophysicists use a catalog of extended gamma-ray sources spotted by Fermi spacecraft to home in on mysterious properties of deep space.​​

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10/14/2018
Caltech Professor Hirosi Ooguri Appointed New Director of Kavli IPMU

Ooguri began serving as the Director on October 15, assuming leadership of one of Japan’s most renowned research institutions.​

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10/02/2018
‘Spacesuits’ Protect Microbes Destined to Live in Space

The unique system captures carbon dioxide and converts it into chemicals that can be used by industry or, someday, in space colonies.​

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10/01/2018
Luminous Blue Variable Star

New, three-dimensional simulations reveal the inner workings of one of the universe’s most mysterious stars.​

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09/26/2018
Cosmological Constraints from the First-Year Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

The team has made and analyzed the deepest wide-field map of the 3D distribution of matter in the Universe.​

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09/26/2018
Software Finds the Best Way to Stick a Mars Landing

Program users can tinker with landing and path planning scenarios to identify optimal landing sites for Mars rovers.​

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09/26/2018
Octopuses Given Mood Drug ‘Ecstasy’ Reveal Genetic Link to Evolution of Social Behaviors in Humans

Scientists say they have found preliminary evidence of an evolutionary link between the social behaviors of octopuses and humans.​

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09/23/2018
NWO Spinoza Prize for Delft bionanoscientist Marileen Dogterom

The prize is the highest award in Dutch science.​

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