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The Blue Box is betting on the future of at-home breast cancer tests
You can take a pregnancy test or colon cancer test from your bathroom, or, these days, a COVID-19 test from the comfort of your living room. You might one day be able to get a breast cancer screening at home, too, if you have a urine sample and an artificial nose. That’s the vision behind The Blue Box, a startup competing this week at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield.
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To Desalinate or Not to Desalinate: UCI Debate Over Controversial Proposed Huntington Beach Plant
Academics, advocates and activists met for a panel discussion at UC Irvine to hash out the pros and cons of a proposal to build a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, with environmentalists once again warning it would damage marine environments and raise water bills.
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Taps may run dry in this country, where the water crisis is so severe it can be seen from space
Iran’s current drought is the worst for at least 40 years and water levels are shrinking “at a time of year when you would normally expect storage to be recovering, not collapsing further,” said Amir AghaKouchak, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine. … The government’s aim to achieve food self-sufficiency … is largely responsible for the situation, experts say. “For decades, policies have encouraged the expansion of irrigated agriculture in arid regions,” AghaKouchak said.
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The Climate Crisis Is Making Floods Bigger. Is LA Ready?
In the L.A.
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These 14 sleek solar homes do more than produce power
“It’s become increasingly competitive,” says Alex McDonald, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He says the Orange County team’s house, which mimics California’s state flower − the golden poppy − by opening to the sun during the day and closing at night − is quite ambitious.
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The ball is different again, and it’s changing the way pitches move. Now what?
Now there’s new research from Glenn Healey and Lequan Wang in the electrical engineering and computer science departments at the University of California, Irvine which shows that as the seam height changes, the movement on pitches changes. By using optical and radar tracking, and correcting for weather effects, Healey and Wang were able to graph the movement of pitches by season in major league baseball.
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The Compost: Have your steak and save the planet, too?
New institute coming: UC Irvine will develop a new Engineering+Environment Institute, along with two others focused on health and society, thanks to a new $50 million gift from philanthropists Susan and Henry Samueli. The environmental institute will specifically focus on how climate change is impacting our coastlines, Yusra Farzan reports. [Subscription required, campus-wide access provided by UCI Libraries.
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The United States has become a disaster area
Researchers who study this tangled web of crises call them “cascading disasters”—disasters that trigger other disasters like falling dominoes. As the climate warms, they are becoming increasingly common. Many risk analysts, though, still treat each disaster as a discrete event, according to Amir AghaKouchak at UC Irvine and Farshid Vahedifard at Mississippi State University. Read More
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The 10 CEOs Transforming Healthcare In America
As a $3.3 trillion business comprising 17.9% of our GDP, healthcare in America is not only a major economic force but something that impacts each of us personally.
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The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute
ChinaJun NiMemorandum of Understanding signed on May 24, 2013.
