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(University of California - San Diego) Combine the aphorisms that "practice makes perfect" and "timing is everything" into one and you might get something resembling findings published in this month's issue of Psychological Science.

Proper spacing of lessons, the researchers report, can dramatically enhance learning. And larger gaps between study sessions result in better recall of facts.

Conversely: Cramming is ineffective in the long haul.

(University of California - San Diego) San Diego professors who are developing technologies that will fuel the continued growth of the region's "clean tech cluster" recently received a financial boost through the 2008 Clean Tech Innovation Challenge.

(King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)) King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and the University of California, San Diego, today announced a special partnership to develop and conduct joint research in visualization and virtual reality and training facilities, which will make the KAUST campus in Saudi Arabia the site of the world's most advanced visualization suite.

(University of California - San Diego) The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, founded at UC San Diego in 2006 as one of six National Science Foundation Science of Learning Centers, has just been awarded an additional $12 million for the next three years to expand its important work studying the role of time and timing in learning.

(University of California - San Diego) The Second Congress ofthe International Society for Cultural and Activity Research will take place at the University of California, San Diego, Sept. 8-13, 2008.

Nearly 1,000 researchers from 40 countries will attend the conference with others participating from around the globe via state-of-the-art telecommunications.

(University of California - San Diego) Computer scientists at the UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering have proposed a new way to build data centers that could save companies money and deliver more computing capability to end-users.

(University of California - San Diego) Building upon the success of its BioBridge science education outreach program, the University of California, San Diego has this summer launched an enhanced initiative to further bring the excitement of scientific research directly into area high school classrooms.

(University of California - San Diego) A group of undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries.

Their work will be published in the July issue of the journal Genome Research.

(University of California - San Diego) A UC San Diego computer science Ph.D. student can turn his face into a remote control that speeds and slows video playback.

The proof-of-concept demonstration is part of a larger project to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers.

(University of California - San Diego) Using one of the world's most powerful sources of man-made radiation, physicists from UC San Diego, Columbia University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have uncovered new secrets about the properties of graphene -- a form of pure carbon that may one day replace the silicon in computers, televisions, mobile phones and other common electronic devices.