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High-rise made of cold-formed steel faces seismic test

1 week ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

A ten story building looms above UC San Diego’s earthquake shake table in nearby Scripps Ranch. Next week the device will simulate an earthquake to see whether a structure made from a lightweight, recycled steel material can withstand it. The building’s load-bearing system, its walls, floors and roofing are all made from cold-formed steel. In the real world building codes would only allow a building like this to be six stories high in a seismic zone like California.
San Diego partners with nonprofit to get naloxone to more people

2 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

A library is a place of community, where lots of people come together. And some of them suffer from opioid addiction. That’s why the first-step in a program to hand out the overdose reversal medication naloxone began at San Diego’s Linda Vista Branch Library. The city of San Diego has forged a partnership with a local nonprofit to provide naloxone in more places throughout the city. City Councilman Raul Campillo was at the Linda Vista library to promote it, and he said he had a good reason.
Economist says migration of skilled workers helps U.S. and the countries they came from

2 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

Skilled foreign workers in the United States are controversial for a variety of reasons. They get caught up in the politics of immigration and what people call a brain drain from other countries. But UC San Diego economics professor Gaurav Khanna said those who see migration in that negative way mistakenly believe that it’s a zero-sum game. “When immigrants come they take away jobs so it must be zero-sum,” Khanna said.
Protesters at UC San Diego ‘Stand Up for Science'

3 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

The Trump administration has cancelled many existing science grants and it’s proposing large budget cuts to science funding foundations like the National Institutes of Health. That’s why hundreds of people at UC San Diego on Friday attended what they called a “Stand Up for Science” protest. Protesters talked about the importance of science funding to the San Diego economy and to the progress of medicine. In fact, they said, federal cuts have already had a big impact on the university.
Encrypting San Diego police calls protects privacy, withholds info about police activity

3 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

Up until this week, the San Diego Police Department has broadcast police calls on an open channel. It’s been a resource for people who follow crime and monitor the police. But some say it has its drawbacks. “In the past we were not encrypted, which meant that by using police scanners anyone in the public, the media, etc. could listen in on all of our radio communications,” said San Diego Police Lt. Daniel Meyer.
Local scientists ahead of the curve with alternatives to animal trials

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

In a lab at the UC San Diego School of Medicine a computer screen shows a video of a human lung with a form of fibrosis. Some parts of it have been dyed green and blue, with the deceased section in red. But this isn’t really a lung. It’s a very small model, made from human stem cells, and it’s called an organoid. “We now have a way to screen the drugs on this, to reverse this exact condition,” Professor Pradipta Ghosh said as she pointed at the screen.
Native American technology and cures: gifts of the land and its plants

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

When I met William Pink he was wearing a grey hoodie and a crushed hat that was lined with small pins. He held a stick with a string attached to the far end, and the string held a row of wooden rings. “This is an acorn ring game,” he said. “These are the acorn caps from the interior white oak. And the idea of the game is to catch the rings.”He tossed the row upward and a ring came down, impaled on his stick. “Got one,” he said.
San Diego scientists offer nonopioid relief to chronic pain sufferers

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

About 10 years ago, Ana Moreno was a PhD student at UC San Diego when she had a free Sunday night and did what some serious students do. She started reading science papers. “I came across a paper that talked about these people in Pakistan, street performers, who could walk on fire and do different performances with no pain whatsoever," Moreno said.
Burying power lines: Progress made and a long way to go

2 months ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

On Friday volunteers and City of San Diego work crews planted trees in Colina del Sol Park and along nearby streets for Arbor Day. This week also marked another milestone in the beautification of San Diego’s right of ways. The community of Bay Park saw the city complete its undergrounding of power lines. The month before, the Rolando neighborhood was finished. Power lines and poles that remain a common site are a historic architecture that nobody wants to preserve.
A partnership with fungus could make plants less reliant on fertilizer

2 months ago | kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge

Plant biologist Lena Mueller emerges from a brightly-lit room in a Salk Institute lab, holding a small plant rooted in a very small container of soil. “This is our little legume that we work with and it looks very sad here because we don’t give it a lot of nutrients because we want it to interact with the fungus,” Mueller said. But when fungus and plant interact, that’s when the plant gets a lot happier.