October 9, 2014 UCSB Outreach Allows Kids Deep-Sea Insight By Shannon Trumbull UCSB’s Marine Science Institute (MSI) is partnering with Robert Ballard — most famously known for his discovery of the Titanic — through the MSI’s new facility for Outreach to Teach Ocean Science (OCTOS) to creat...
September 25, 2014 UCSB Engineers Introduce An Innovative Biosensor that Rivals Graphene in Sensitivity By Shannon Trumbull UC Santa Barbara researchers recently engineered a 2-D next-generation field-effect transistor (FET) biosensor using molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a compound 75 times more sensitive than graphene in detecting single molec...