University of California San Diego

The researchers found that butterflies did not redesign their entire visual system. Instead, they effectively duplicated one component…

Mitochondria are often portrayed in textbooks as tiny, bean-shaped structures floating inside cells, but in reality they function…

For the first time, researchers at the University of California San Diego witnessed diamond capsules undergo shock-induced amorphization,…

UC San Diego biologists identified the genetic switch that gave butterflies an extra light-detecting cell in their eyes, expanding their colour vision beyond imagination