Kyle Naughton

May 22, 2012

Astronomers Use New Technique to Study the Expansion of Black Holes

By Kyle Naughton

An international team of astronomers in Chile employed three powerful telescopes to peer into the heart of a galaxy tens of millions of light years away. The astronomers observed the hot accretion disk of matter falling ...

April 24, 2012

UCSB Mechanical Engineering Professor Launches Investigation on Fluid Dynamics of Coffee Spills

By Kyle Naughton

Upon observing colleagues struggle to keep their coffee from spilling at a math conference, UCSB professor of mechanical engineering Rouslan Krechetnikov began a research project to study this phenomenon. Krechetnikov’...

February 7, 2012

Scientists Link Rising Ocean pH Levels and Declining Marine Life

By Kyle Naughton

An international group of scientists led by UCSB researchers demonstrated the effects of carbon dioxide on the acidity of the ocean’s surface. The study’s results indicate that human greenhouse gas emissions play a c...

January 31, 2012

UCSB Scientists Warn Against Invasive Species

By Kyle Naughton

A recent study led by scientists at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis demonstrated how globalization and the demand for drought-resistant plant species threaten to overcome native...

November 15, 2011

UCSB Researchers Break New Ground in Quantum Mechanics

By Kyle Naughton

In a recent study, UCSB physicists were the first to successfully demonstrate how defects in silicon carbide can be controlled quantum mechanically at room temperature. The physicists’ achievement is particularly impor...

November 1, 2011

UCSB Researchers Study Oil-Consuming Bacteria in Wake of Recent Horizon Spill

By Kyle Naughton

Using DNA to track the bacteria’s unusual diet, UCSB scientists recently discovered bacteria feeding on natural gas leaking from the ocean floor at unusually cold temperatures at the site of the Deepwater Horizons oil ...

October 11, 2011

Kepler Mission Finds First Known Planet with Two Suns

By Kyle Naughton

Previously only imaged in “Star Wars”, UCSB astrophysicist Avi Shroprer recently aided in the discovery of a small planet — Kepler-16 — orbiting two suns in our own Milky Way. The research findings, published las...

May 31, 2011

Physicists Create Quantum Circuit Through Use of Entanglement

By Kyle Naughton

Researchers at UCSB recently demonstrated the quantum mechanical effect known as ‘entanglement’ in a demonstration of cutting edge quantum computer technology.