Despite the broad and plentiful array of research abounding on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, many do not have the opportunity to learn about these scientific explorations in an approachable setting. This evening, however, marks the debut of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics’ (KITP) series of research […]
Concerns are continuing to arise over the news that researchers from Japan recently discovered a revolutionary phenomenon in which mature differentiated cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent embryonic cells, which can then differentiate into one of many cell types.
The past decade has presented academic institutions as leaders in addressing the issue of climate change through extensive research and education. Yet it turns out that they many academic institutions are financially invested in companies whose practices, quite literally, add fuel to the crisis.
Dozens of teachers from around the country gathered at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) to participate in “The Physics of Flocking: From Cells to Crowds,” a full-day workshop for high school science educators to become better acquainted with the realms of physics and academic science.
Among the endless diet fads and craze to eat healthy and stay thin, our first instinct when dieting is to grab everything off supermarket shelves that is labeled with “low-fat” or — even better — “non-fat.” According to recent studies, however, men who consumed high-fat dairy tended to be leaner than those who consumed low-fat dairy products.
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