Science & Tech

Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB

January 27, 2022 by

A look at predator-prey interactions, endangered whale protection, and volcanic hotspots.
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Simply Stated: Food Fight? “Starving” the Cancer

January 27, 2022 by

Diet accounts for 30-50% of environmentally caused cancers. With a normal balance of angiogenesis, your body can prevent blood vessels from ever reaching cancer cells, thereby preventing tumors from g...
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At North Campus Open Space, Years of Restoration Work Unveil a Transformed Landscape

January 13, 2022 by

In a landmark conservation deal with the Trust for Public Land in 2013, Ocean Meadows Golf Club was sold by its owner, Mark Green, for $7 million, with a further $10 million raised to facilitate the g...
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB

January 13, 2022 by

A look at zwitterionic SPEs, plant population dynamics, and the prospect of interstellar space travel.
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How The Omicron Variant Impacts Our Path To COVID-19 Endemicity

January 5, 2022 by

Eventually, COVID-19 can be labeled as endemic, but until we increase vaccination rates to slow transmission, limit hospitalization and death to ease strain on the healthcare system, we aren’t quite...
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Simply Stated: Does it Really Never Rain in Southern California?

December 19, 2021 by

In California, high pressure during much of the year steers storms well clear of the state.
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NASA and SpaceX Launch Mission to Crash Spacecraft Into Asteroid From California Coast

December 5, 2021 by

Next October, after nearly a year of coasting, DART will intersect with a pair of asteroids in interplanetary space.
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Simply Stated: What Is the Best Form of Caffeine?

December 5, 2021 by

What should you be drinking to stay fueled and focused?
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UCSB Earth Science Researchers Map Fossil History in Ediacaran Era

December 5, 2021 by

MacDonald and collaborators were able to extract accurate dates from the use of a rhenium-osmium chronometer.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB

November 23, 2021 by

A look at rockfish, LED lights, and fire probability predictions with UCSB researchers.
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Simply Stated: What Are The Stages of Vaccine Development?

November 23, 2021 by

On November 2, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was approved for administration in an age-appropriate dosage for children aged 5-11. With this recent milestone, many of us have been wondering what...
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UCSB Marine Science Institute Highlights Microbes as Key to Further Medical Discovery

November 23, 2021 by and

In early October, researchers Isabel J. Jones, Susanne H. Sokolow and Giulio A. De Leo from the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara explored the benefits of using natural enemies as a sustain...
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UCSB Physics Professor Proposes New Planetary Defense System

November 14, 2021 by

The project proposes a way to break up incoming cosmic objects, instead of just deflecting them as past efforts have sought to do.
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UCSB Ecologist Looks to AI To Improve Wildlife Camera Trapping

November 5, 2021 by

The data analyzed in this study was taken from a long-term camera trap project in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.
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UCSB Professor Urges Centrality of Women in Biomedical Research

November 4, 2021 by

Emily Jacobs gave a lecture last week in the library entitled, “The Uncharted Mind — The Scientific Body of Knowledge: Whose Body Does it Serve?”
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