Science & Tech

UC Kicks Off Cool Campus Challenge for Month of April

April 4, 2019 by

From April 1–26, all 10 UC campuses will be going head-to-head for all students, faculty and staff to “reduce UC’s carbon footprint and create a culture of sustainability across the campuses,”...
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Two UCSB Faculty Named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows

March 28, 2019 by

UCSB’s Sloan Research Fellowship recipients are Thomas Sprague for neuroscience and Xin Zhou for mathematics.
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From Apprentice to Shadow: How Intelligent Machines are Changing Learning in the Workplace

March 14, 2019 by

Beane's TED Talk strives to shed light on this issue to people involved in technology integration so that they may be able to change the course of intelligent machines in the workforce.
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The Grass is Greener

March 14, 2019 by

“Our long-term goal is to create sustainable biofuels and bioenergy that not only can displace fossil fuels but also bring in other ecological and environmental benefits, like high-diversity prairie...
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First North American Occurrence of Rare Sunfish Discovered in Santa Barbara

March 7, 2019 by

The rare hoodwinker sunfish's appearance in Santa Barbara marks the first ever sighting of this rare species in North America, and only the second time in the Northern Hemisphere in 130 years.
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Food Partitioning Allows for Fish’s Pacific Coexistence

March 7, 2019 by

Territorial damselfish populations can coexist on the same coral reefs by sharing food resources and switching diets to reduce competition.
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A Study of Love: UCSB Researcher Examines Altruism in Couples

March 7, 2019 by

Researchers examine the chemical and neurological basis behind love, empathy and altruism.
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Black Professors and Students Share How Their Identity Shapes Their Academic Experiences

February 28, 2019 by

Four Black faculty and students at UCSB share their thoughts on how their identity affects their academic experiences.
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Chasing the Ever ‘Moving Target’ of Ocean Restoration

February 21, 2019 by

This “moving target” of ocean restoration not only reflects the human race and its demands, but also encompasses Earth’s changing environment as a whole.
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Express Yourself: UCSB Researchers Study RNA Roles in Cell Differentiation

February 21, 2019 by

Golkaram and colleagues set out to identify the interactions between mRNA and miRNAs, which control and regulate cell development through expressing specific genes.
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‘Train Locally, Deploy Globally’ with AI

February 14, 2019 by

To help scientists in “applying artificial intelligence (AI) to help understand and protect the planet”, Microsoft and National Geographic have partnered up to sponsor AI for Earth Innovation Gran...
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The Swipe Right Love Story

February 14, 2019 by

While the prospect of online dating is bleak, research has shown that its dystopian implication doesn’t deviate as far from our primitive instincts as we might think.
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UCSB Researcher Studies Carbon Storage in Soil

February 7, 2019 by

“What we found that was really interesting was that the absorption capacity for carbon really depends on climate to a very great extent,” Chadwick said.
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Reduce, Reuse and Reconsider the Effectiveness of Recycling

February 7, 2019 by

Geyer’s study showed that only nine percent of the plastic ever produced has been recycled.
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Let’s Tau-lk about Tau: Exploring the Protein

January 31, 2019 by

The Han research group has found a method that can track the healthy to pathological transition of the protein tau, which is implicated in diseases including Alzheimer's.
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