Nader Heidari

July 14, 2010

Marine Professors Take On the Spill

By Nader Heidari

When the April 20 explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to one of the largest oil spills in history, UCSB scientists sprang into action.

April 13, 2010

Physicist Joe Incandela on the LHC

By Nader Heidari

On March 30, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle collider, set a new world record by smashing two 3.5 trillion electron volt (TeV) proton beams to produce a 7 TeV collision.

April 6, 2010

Receptors Keep Neural Stem Cells From Getting Dropped

By Nader Heidari

An insulin-like signal has been found to be necessary for stem cells to continue existing in the brain, opening doors for scientists who want to find ways to repair cerebral injuries using the pluripotent organisms.

April 6, 2010

Engineers Desalinate With a Membrane

By Nader Heidari

UCLA researchers have produced a tool to remove the salt content from water while avoiding the problems that arise from clogging during the purification of difficult types of water.

April 6, 2010

Physicists Create Particularly Strange Matter

By Nader Heidari

An antihyperparticle, which contains the anti-matter equivalents of "strange" quarks, was produced by a team of scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

April 6, 2010

University Receives Donation for New Medical Center

By Nader Heidari

A $75 million gift from former Qualcomm Incorporated CEO and UC San Diego founding faculty member Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan Jacobs will go toward the construction of the Jacobs Medical Center on UCSD's east campus.

April 6, 2010

Plants Can’t Grow Fast, Repel Pests, Too

By Nader Heidari

Biologists have found that plants lose their ability to defend themselves against pests if they grow too fast, creating a paradox for farmers looking to make the perfect crop.

April 6, 2010

Receptors Keep Neural Stem Cells From Getting Dropped

By Nader Heidari

An insulin-like signal has been found to be necessary for stem cells to continue existing in the brain, opening doors for scientists who want to find ways to repair cerebral injuries using the pluripotent organisms.

April 6, 2010

Engineers Desalinate With a Membrane

By Nader Heidari

UCLA researchers have produced a tool to remove the salt content from water while avoiding the problems that arise from clogging during the purification of difficult types of water.

April 6, 2010

Physicists Create Particularly Strange Matter

By Nader Heidari

An antihyperparticle, which contains the anti-matter equivalents of "strange" quarks, was produced by a team of scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

April 6, 2010

University Receives Donation for New Medical Center

By Nader Heidari

A $75 million gift from former Qualcomm Incorporated CEO and UC San Diego founding faculty member Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan Jacobs will go toward the construction of the Jacobs Medical Center on UCSD's east campus.

April 6, 2010

Plants Can’t Grow Fast, Repel Pests, Too

By Nader Heidari

Biologists have found that plants lose their ability to defend themselves against pests if they grow too fast, creating a paradox for farmers looking to make the perfect crop.

March 30, 2010

Scientists Succeed at Large-Scale Superposition

By Nader Heidari

Physicists at UCSB have proven that it's not just the size of an object that matters when it comes to displaying quantum effects.

January 5, 2010

Protein Key Opens Cell Doors

By Nader Heidari

Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research at UCSB have made a breakthrough in peptide-based drug delivery, taking another step along a path that may lead to more effective drugs that may produce fewer sid...

November 24, 2009

Scientists Seek to Send Stem Cells to Clinics

By Nader Heidari, Josie Rushton

Researchers around the world are collaborating in order to understand a fundamental building block within the human body.

October 27, 2009

CERN To Bring Particle Science Forward

By Nader Heidari

Inside a 27-kilometer tunnel below the surface of France and Switzerland, the world's largest particle supercollider is beginning to rise out of dormancy to begin running fundamental physics experiments once again.