Genes for All Seasons

January 9, 2003 by

It began in the May of 1985 when Robert Sinsheimer, who currently works at UCSB, called a workshop at UC Santa Cruz at which scientists discussed for the first time the possibility of mapping the huma...
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Energy Dept. To Review UC Lab

January 6, 2003 by

Los Alamos is one of the nation's three nuclear laboratories run by the Dept. of Energy and managed by the University of California. The resignations, which follow a number of scandals at the laborato...
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UCSB Receives Grant to Research Fiber Optics

December 5, 2002 by

Five UCSB researchers were recently awarded $3.5 million by DARPA to create advanced routing devices for optical computer networks over the next four years. The project is part of a field of research ...
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The Lab Rat: How You Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Fission

November 25, 2002 by

Shape charges are specialized explosives molded into special shapes that control the direction of their explosion. The directional force of these explosions results in incredible precision.
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Lab Rat: Fly Me to the Moon, Just Don’t Incinerate Me Along the Way

November 18, 2002 by

By bouncing laser light off of mirrors on the lunar surface and recording the amount of time it takes to make the trip, scientists can determine the distance to the moon.
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Lab Rat: Don’t Make Light of Photons

November 14, 2002 by

The theory of continental drift had to wait decades before it could be tested through actual tracking of plate movements. The techniques necessary for tracking them with precision did not exist when ...
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First UC Vice President of Lab Management Quits

November 12, 2002 by

John McTague, the first vice president of laboratory management for the University of California's national labs, announced plans to resign the position last Friday.
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Lab Rat: You Could Be Anywhere

November 5, 2002 by

Since the stations know their true position, they can tell how accurate the satellites' information is and send it to GPS receivers to help correct them.
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Software Error Lists Voters as Absentees

November 5, 2002 by

An anomaly in the county clerk office's voter registration software was responsible for many late-registered voters being erroneously marked as absentee voters at the county's polling locations
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Lab Rat: Take a Voyage Through the Relatively Wonderful World of Time and Space

October 29, 2002 by

If you're driving at 60 miles per hour and spit out the window of your truck - not something I'd recommend - you might see your spit fly forward at 10 miles per hour (in the split second before the wi...
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Minimalism to the Max

October 17, 2002 by

Philip Glass will change your life. He's been called a minimalist and the new Stravinsky, but it's not as easy as all that. His style is about as difficult to pin as a wrestler on a Teflon mat.
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Pentagon Thrusts Missile into Pacific Sky

October 15, 2002 by

The strange lights in the Santa Barbara sky last night were not indicative of the second coming. They were, however, the latest in a series of missile defense tests held at Vandenberg Air Force Base i...
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Researcher Lectures on Resistant Bacteria

October 10, 2002 by

People around the world are dying of bacterial infections that were once entirely treatable with conventional antibiotics and as modern medicine advances, the situation stands to get worse, not better...
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The Red Tape: Buzz Off

October 1, 2002 by

The West Nile virus is spreading, the death tolls in America are reaching the hundreds this year and there have been thousands of reported cases of infection.
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Research Links Ecstasy Use to Parkinson’s

September 27, 2002 by

Love it or leave it, the drug Ecstasy has been known to have side effects, including problems with sleep, mood, anxiety, impulsive behavior, inattention and memory.
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