Karla Bernardo

October 22, 2015

A California Sharktober

By Karla Bernardo

With the increased amount of shark encounters that have occurred this past year due to the warming of the marine climate, surfers and beachgoers must be much more vigilant when out in open ocean. The El Niño Southern Os...

August 9, 2015

Scientists Get Nosy About the Sense of Smell

By Karla Bernardo

Often times, children pinch their noses when eating brussel sprouts — or any other type of food deemed unpleasant — to mitigate the terrible taste because the sense of taste is dependent on the sense of smell. The ol...

May 21, 2015

Memristor Technology Brings Us One Step Closer to a Robotic World

By Karla Bernardo

The dawn of free-thinking robots may soon be upon us. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Stony Brook University have developed an artificial neural circuit that emulates the electrical design of the brain’s synapses w...

May 14, 2015

Ecstasy: What It is Doing to Your Brain

By Karla Bernardo

In the past few years, the rate of people in the United States using some form of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) — better known as Ecstasy or Molly — has skyrocketed. Psychiatrists have begun to examine the psy...

May 14, 2015

Project 8 Scientists Detect Frequency of Radiation for Individual Electron

By Karla Bernardo

A team of 27 scientists from six American and German institutions has, for the first time, achieved the task of detecting the frequency of radiation of a lone, orbiting electron. The group’s research, known informally ...

April 30, 2015

The Biological Value of Silver Nanoparticles

By Karla Bernardo

Materialistically, society perceives the element silver second only to gold, however silver wins the favor of engineers, who take advantage of its unique conduction properties of heat and electrical current. A group of U...

April 16, 2015

Overthinking May Be Slowing Down Your Learning Rate

By Karla Bernardo

With midterms fast approaching, students are looking for the most efficient method possible to learn and retain information. As the saying goes, working smarter instead of working harder may give the best results. UC San...

April 2, 2015

Researchers Discover Deep Sea Microbes Using Self-Mutation to Survive in Extreme Environments

By Karla Bernardo

Hundreds to thousands of meters below sea level there exist unique single-celled microorganisms from the domain Archaea. Many Archaea are biology’s adrenaline junkies flourishing in Earth’s extreme environments — f...

March 5, 2015

Researchers Probe Conformations of Protein Involved in Alzheimer’s Disease

By Karla Bernardo

UC Santa Barbara researchers recently studied the biophysics of the regulation and aggregation of Tau, a protein critical in regulating several intracellular functions and believed to play a role in the development of Al...

February 12, 2015

UCSB Researchers Tackle Pediatric Diabetes With Artificial Pancreas

By Karla Bernardo

Type 1 diabetic patients know that the responsibilities necessary to manage life with the disease are all routine: monitoring food consumption, maintaining a balance in physical activity and tracking precise times to tak...

February 5, 2015

UCSB Microbial Oceanographer Receives Prestigious Award

By Karla Bernardo

Craig Carlson of UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology was awarded the prestigious G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) f...