Astronomers Use New Technique to Study the Expansion of Black Holes

May 22, 2012 by

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

April 24, 2012 by

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 phenome...
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Scientists Link Rising Ocean pH Levels and Declining Marine Life

February 7, 2012 by

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 ga...
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UCSB Scientists Warn Against Invasive Species

January 31, 2012 by

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 threate...
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UCSB Researchers Break New Ground in Quantum Mechanics

November 15, 2011 by

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

November 1, 2011 by

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 Dee...
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Kepler Mission Finds First Known Planet with Two Suns

October 11, 2011 by

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 fin...
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Physicists Create Quantum Circuit Through Use of Entanglement

May 31, 2011 by

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