This Week in Science

April 2, 2015 by

Sometimes, you can only find out what something is by clarifying what it is not. Astronomers are studying dark matter in a similar conceit — observing how the elusive substance behaves during collis...
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Adding Mathematics to the Biological Equation

October 9, 2014 by

Mathematics can be used to express a variety of phenomena; a masterful Mozart sonata, for example, can be represented as an elaborate sequence of longitudinal pressure waves or acoustic wave functions...
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Fossil Free Protests UC’s Funding of Fossil Fuel Giants

March 5, 2014 by

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...
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Searching for Dark Matter a Mile Underground

January 15, 2014 by

To cap off the year in science, the European journal Nature named the Large Underground Xenon Dark Matter (LUX) experiment­­­ — a search for dark matter in which faculty of the physics department...
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UCSB Makes Quantum Leaps in Rapid Information Transfer

October 15, 2013 by

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara recently addressed a major issue in security by successfully transferring reliable and ultra-secure communication via quantum-encrypted infor...
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