The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits atop Cerro Pachó in Chile. The new telescope is one of the many innovations with UC ties that TIME magazine chose for its Best Inventions of 2025. (Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/A. Pizarro D.)

TIME magazine recently released its Best Inventions of 2025, highlighting the emerging technology and products that are “changing how we live, work, play, and think about what’s possible.”  UC faculty and alums are behind over a dozen of the inventions on this year’s list, with contributions to aerospace, health, agriculture, computing and more.

The recognition from TIME comes shortly after Pitchbook placed six UC campuses — Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Davis, and Irvine — among the world’s top 100 universities for undergraduate alumni who started venture-backed businesses.

UC’s ten campuses are home to thriving ecosystems for innovation that help students, faculty and staff move their ideas from conception to the market. Many of the inventions on TIME’s list this year have gotten a boost from UC business clubs, or their extensive ecosystem of incubators or accelerators. Others have benefitted from UC’s technology commercialization experts. These groups link campus founders to local and global industries, helping UC inventions get out into the world, where they can generate jobs and economic growth.

Learn more about some of this year’s most exciting inventions from UC’s extraordinary community of changemakers:

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