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Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley claim to have created a prototype vision-correcting matrix that they claim fits directly to a screen and negates the need for eyeglasses or remedial lenses for farsighted people. This may also eventually help other, more serious, eye problems.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed an anode using pure nano-silicon made from sand that improves the performance of lithium-ion batteries threefold.

Gas-powered lawnmowers are notorious polluters. Switching to an electric or reel mower is certainly one option, but a team of engineering students from the University of California, Riverside are developing another: an attachment that they claim reduces noxious emissions by over 90 percent.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a way to use an ingredient in Silly Putty to improve lithium-ion battery life between charges by three times the industry standard.

Scientists at Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created sensitive, tactile sensors that are similar to a cat's whiskers. The so-called "e-whiskers" could be used to help robots feel their way around a space.

Like something out of a Robert Heinlein novel, students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have built a metal rocket engine using a technique previously confined to NASA.

The U.S. Department of Defense is pushing for the development of cheap, wearable systems that can detect the brain waves of people and display the data on smartphones or tablets in field scenarios.

Computer scientists have come up with a new simple, accurate way to simulate the appearance of fabric that could change the way artists and animators in the film and computer game industries go about the business of rendering computer-generated clothing and other materials.

Researchers at University of California, Davis are testing the use of UAVs for crop dusting.

An autonomous self-balancing two-wheeled robot is being developed to help firefighters.

A new hydrogel developed at the University of California, Berkeley that moves in response to light could find applications in soft robotics.

A new fabric developed at the University of California, Davis, has tiny channels that pull sweat through the fabric where it forms into droplets that drain away.