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LEDs dominate lighting systems but their efficiency rests on the tricky production of blue light.

Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is the foundation of modern biology. It might sound like a fairly straightforward exercise, but in fact it's complicated and often controversial. Why? Because there's no one agreed list of all the world's species. Competing lists exist for organisms such as mammals and birds, while other...

Print Bill Newman, a world-renowned La Jolla biologist who helped show that lowly barnacles are wonderfully diverse creatures that can be widely used to track whales and turtles and monitor ocean pollution, died at home on Dec. 26. He was 93. His passing was announced by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he was on the faculty for nearly 60 years and contributed to its rise as a mecca for marine science. For the record: 4:00 PM, Jan. 13, 2021In an earlier version of th...