UCSB Joins Large-Scale Cancer Research Consortium

Using broad evolutionary and ecological perspectives to look at cancer across the tree of life could help make great strides in cancer prevention and treatment mechanisms, according to Boddy.
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Where There’s a Whale, There’s a Way

Without updating protection policies to reflect the right whale’s shifting distribution, the researchers predict the right whale may go extinct in as soon as 27 years.
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Consciousness Conundrum

In everyday conversations, we often use the words “mind” and “brain” interchangeably. For psychologists and other researchers studying the mind-brain problem, the two terms hold very different...
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Arginine’s Larger (in) Life Role

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that the amino acids arginine and, to a lesser degree, lysine may have greater importance than previously thought regarding the origin of life.
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Maze Runner Redefined

Through fluid mechanics soap can solve a milk maze.
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Resisting (Marine) Space Invaders

The invasive alga Sargassum horneri has established itself in Southern California marine systems, including those in the Channel Islands along the coast of Santa Barbara.
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Taking the Bad with the Good

UCSB researchers model how changes in climate and socioeconomic status will likely affect health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa
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Landscape Factors Affecting Insecticide Use

Context and crop type determine the impact of certain landscape characteristics on insecticide use
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Opinion Maps Detail Americans’ Climate Beliefs

From 2008 to 2016, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication ran major opinion polls on U.S. climate beliefs, surveying over 18,000 American adults bi-annually. Through the survey they found th...
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R.E.M.A.D.E. Crusade: UCSB Improves Energy Efficiency

The R.E.M.A.D.E. institute at UCSB aims to find new ways to reuse metals, polymers and fibers.
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Scent Trumps Attraction When Searching For a Mate

UCSB biologist reveals that choosing the ideal insect mate is a combination of looks and smell.
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Stop! Hammer Time

With the hopes of discovering how individual neural cells react to impacts, researchers in the mechanical engineering department at UCSB are working on developing the world's smallest hammer.
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Greater Success for Students with Learning Disabilities Linked to Applied S.T.E.M.

Researchers from the Gervitz School of Education find that S.T.E.M. classes may help students with disabilities.
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How China’s Got It Made Using Trophic Cascades

Because each trophic level in a food chain has roughly 10 times as much biomass as its lower level, China’s removal of the predatory fish at the top levels has increased the number of fish in the lo...
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Red Herring: L.A. Sushi Restaurants Mislabel Fish

Efforts in making the fishing industry sustainable may not be as effective due to commonly mislabeled fish.
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