A new multi‑university preprint finds just 10–15 minutes of AI help can reduce persistence and independent problem‑solving. The finding complicates how schools and workplaces should use chatbots.

High Tech High’s Holy Cows were part of the winning alliance at the 2026 FIRST Robotics world championship in Houston after a season of district awards and engineering honors.

Marines at Miramar tested UH‑1Y and AH‑1Z helicopters as airborne motherships to launch and control Neros Archer FPV drones, showing a way to strike from farther away while keeping crews safer.

UC San Diego rolled out a B.S. in Artificial Intelligence and welcomed its first cohort, joining a growing group of colleges adding AI undergraduate majors.

General Atomics' DIII‑D tokamak in Sorrento Valley fires plasma hotter than the sun and hosts hundreds of researchers testing fusion technology.

Dexcom’s investor day laid out product and reimbursement milestones that local analysts say could channel roughly $800M into San Diego through 2030. The plan hinges on G8 performance, Medicare coverage and broader adoption.

UC San Diego won a $5M renewal for its NIH‑backed FIRST program, preserving cohort hiring, mentorship and grant support for early‑career biomedical researchers.

UC San Diego researchers built T1GRS, a machine‑learning genetic score that finds more people at risk for type 1 diabetes and reveals four genetic subtypes.

Salk researchers say certain B cells can find tumors and call in T cells — an early, discovery‑stage finding that could widen immunotherapy options for solid cancers.

A cyberattack that began Saturday disrupted email, websites and registration at SDCCD; officials say classes are mostly continuing and there’s no evidence data was taken.

UC San Diego Health says it performed the West Coast’s first AI‑guided robotic spinal surgery, using a platform that combines AI planning, imaging and robot‑assisted implant delivery. Hospital leaders say the move aims to improve implant accuracy and streamline OR workflow.

J. Craig Venter, the La Jolla genomics pioneer who helped map the human genome and later built synthetic cells, died April 29 at 79.

Preliminary inspections show Orion’s heat shield held up during Artemis II’s April 10 splashdown off San Diego, with much less char loss than Artemis I. Engineers say detailed lab work is still coming.