Science & Tech

Science Through the Lens of an Artist

February 11, 2016 by

  At first glance, the whirling, shimmering zigzags of color seem like a modern tech-art combination — so distant from their roots in the detailed scientific processes that inspired them. These...
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Clam-tastic Solar Power Technology

February 4, 2016 by

Giant clams contain light-reflecting cells, called iridescent cells, on their exposed epithelium that allow the giant clam to reflect incoming sunlight into vivid shades of gold, blue and green. The g...
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The Search for Dark Matter

February 4, 2016 by

One of the greatest mysteries in modern astrophysics is dark matter. While it makes up about 80 percent of the matter in the entire Universe, its detection has eluded physicists and scientists since i...
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The Oscar of the Marine World

February 3, 2016 by

In the world of science, there are few honors that are significant enough to be compared to something as prestigious as an Academy Award in the film industry. One award noteworthy of paralleling this ...
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Translating Research into Industry

January 28, 2016 by

UCSB’s Technology Management Program (TMP) is a rare and unique program that allows students of any major to complement their studies with a certificate in technology management. Essentially, it pro...
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What Is the Cause of Climate Change?

January 28, 2016 by

Global warming is often addressed as “climate change” these days, because scientists are attempting to encompass all the phenomena that accompany our planet’s steady increase in temperature. In ...
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Investigating Microbes in the Sargasso Sea

January 21, 2016 by

Thanks to new funding from an anonymous donor, Craig Carlson, professor and chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Ecology, Evolution, and Microbial Biology department, will now be directing a collaborative pr...
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Saved By the Bell

January 21, 2016 by

Declines in mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa and Rana sierrae) populations were first recognized in the 1970s. Since then, according to National Park Service, the population size has decrease...
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UC Santa Barbara’s Top Innovators

January 14, 2016 by

National Medal Of Technology Recipient, Andrew Gossard Arthur Gossard, UC Santa Barbara Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Materials, Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently named ...
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Emotional Theory: Getting Physical

January 14, 2016 by

When I arrived at his office half an hour early, the door was open. Sitting comfortably at his neatly paper-laden desk was UCSB Researcher and Sociology professor, Dr. Thomas Scheff (or “Doc”, as ...
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A Polymeric Future

January 7, 2016 by

Research in one field is oftentimes applicable in another, and for UC Santa Barbara chemist Abby Knight her research is no different. While pursuing her doctorate at UC Berkeley, Knight created a plas...
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Transforming Diabetes Treatment

January 7, 2016 by

Since the development of diabetes treatment, injections have been the only method of insulin delivery available to patients. However, diabetes patients may soon be able to replace their insulin pricks...
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Santa Barbara Allergist Suggests A Nutty Solution for Peanut Allergies

December 31, 2015 by

One in 50 children between the ages of five and 11 have a peanut allergy. The CDC reports that peanut allergies have risen by 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, accounting for over three million cases ...
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Unraveling Secrets of the Mussel Foot Protein

December 23, 2015 by

A multidisciplinary team of researchers and faculty at UCSB has made strides in their efforts to develop an underwater adhesive, or glue. By building upon past studies on mussel adhesion, the group ha...
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Holiday Science Lab

December 3, 2015 by

What is crystallization? Crystallization is a solid-liquid separation technique. An impure solid compound is completely dissolved in hot water. This solution contains the desired compound as well as i...
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