Science & Tech

The Strange Case of Parasitic Castrators Amongst Hermaphroditic Barnacles

January 23, 2020 by

The study made the prediction that infection would be mainly in female-functioning barnacles due to the parasite’s feeding habits.
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Womxn/Hacks Organizes Second Annual Hackathon Over Weekend

January 23, 2020 by

Over 250 students spent 36 hours coding nonstop at the second annual Womxn/Hacks, a hackathon dedicated to promoting an inclusive environment for female-identifying people interested in S.T.E.M.
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Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: Predicting Forest Responses to Contrasting Climate Change Influences

January 16, 2020 by

The study published in PNAS investigated how forests are responding to global warming and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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The Code Less Traveled: SB Hacks 2020 Focuses on Hacker Experience

January 16, 2020 by

For 36 hours from 5 p.m. on Friday to 9 a.m. on Sunday, over 340 coders worked tirelessly in Corwin Pavilion during SB Hacks VI, UC Santa Barbara’s largest annual hackathon.
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One Limb, Two Limb, Left Limb, Right Limb: The Ground Rules of Planar Cell Polarity

January 9, 2020 by

The way in which structural symmetry is broken and complexity forms in an organism depends on the directional instructions given to cells, provided by pathways known as planar polarity pathways.
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Researchers Study Hawaiian Volcano Kilauea’s Destructive 2018 Eruption

January 9, 2020 by

Scientists’ understanding of collapsing volcanic calderas had been severely limited by poorly-documented caldera-forming eruptions up until this 2018 outburst.
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Researchers Compare Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Counties

December 13, 2019 by

In their paper published in Scientific Reports, the researchers investigated eight different human mating models to determine which can most accurately predict our realized mate choices.
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Recapping the First Annual Blockchain Summit at UCSB

December 5, 2019 by

On Nov. 23, the campus organization Blockchain at UCSB hosted the first-ever Santa Barbara Blockchain Summit at Corwin Pavilion, featuring tech industry leaders, start-up founders and professors. 
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A Sunsational Study: UCSB Researchers Examine Political Identities and Participation of U.S. Solar Households

December 5, 2019 by

“If you look inside a neighborhood, Republicans and Democrats have the same probability of having solar,” Mildenberger said.
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Racial Discrimination in Medicine: Physician Bias, Income and Mortality

November 25, 2019 by

On Monday, Nov. 18, UCSB’s Broom Center for Demography invited Economics Professor Trevon Logan to speak on his research on the racial disparities in health care. 
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You Reef What You Sow: Coral Reef Management and Status in a Warming World

November 21, 2019 by

“Many reefs around the world are losing ecosystem function and declining to degraded states with a loss of coral cover, less fish and the proliferation of algae,” Donovan said.
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Mental Health in Medicine: Presented by Vania Manipod, D.O., at UCSB

November 21, 2019 by and

Manipod described her own experience with occupational burnout and how living with the condition led to her reevaluate her career and her priorities as a psychiatrist. 
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UCSB Researchers Investigate Snail Control Efforts To Combat Parasitic Disease

November 14, 2019 by

Schistosomiasis, an acute and chronic disease caused by parasitic worms of the genus Schistosoma, affects over 200 million people worldwide.
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Fungus Among Us: Researchers Map Lineages of Chytrid Fungus Affecting Sierra Nevada Frogs

November 7, 2019 by

Not unlike the plot of a B-list horror movie, a fatal disease in frogs, chytridiomycosis, has spread all across the world on a pandemic scale in mere decades.
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UCSB Professor To Study Public Perception of NSF Synthetic Cells Projects

November 7, 2019 by

With ambitious goals to build synthetic neurons and lipid-free cells, many questions can emerge, including the societal significance of synthetic cells as well as the potential benefits, risks and pos...
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