Annette Kleinman

May 7, 2014

Geologists Discover 2.7 Million-Year-Old Landscape Hidden Beneath Greenland’s Ice

By Annette Kleinman

Scientists were recently shocked to discover an ancient tundra located two miles below the Greenland Ice Sheet [...]

April 24, 2014

Synthesis to Degradation: Building a Chemical Database

By Annette Kleinman

Imagine every known chemical and compound: ammonia, ethanol, pure water, diamond ­­— the list goes on. Yet every day more chemicals are discovered and registered with the American Chemical Society’s chemical list. ...

February 26, 2014

Looking to Slim Down? Try Skipping the Skim Milk

By Annette Kleinman

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.” A...

February 19, 2014

UCSB Researchers Develop Tool to Trace How Bodies Metabolize Drugs

By Annette Kleinman

A biomedical technology once thought impossible came to fruition thanks to University of California, Santa Barbara researchers Kevin Plaxco, a biochemistry professor, Tom Soh, a mechanical engineering professor and Scott...

January 15, 2014

Scientists Discover Ancient and Luminous Supernovae

By Annette Kleinman

Imagine how bright something must be in order for us to see it from 10 billion light-years away, or approximately 9.5 x1025 meters. Often it is bright enough to keep us awake during an all-night finals study session.

October 8, 2013

UCSB Researchers Unravel Membrane Protein Structure

By Annette Kleinman

As you pick up this issue of the Nexus and turn the page to the Science & Tech section, millions of membrane proteins are hard at work inside your body. All the body’s functions, from movement to cell-to-cell commu...