Science & Tech

Black Professors and Students Share How Their Identity Shapes Their Academic Experiences

February 28, 2019 by

Four Black faculty and students at UCSB share their thoughts on how their identity affects their academic experiences.
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Chasing the Ever ‘Moving Target’ of Ocean Restoration

February 21, 2019 by

This “moving target” of ocean restoration not only reflects the human race and its demands, but also encompasses Earth’s changing environment as a whole.
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Express Yourself: UCSB Researchers Study RNA Roles in Cell Differentiation

February 21, 2019 by

Golkaram and colleagues set out to identify the interactions between mRNA and miRNAs, which control and regulate cell development through expressing specific genes.
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‘Train Locally, Deploy Globally’ with AI

February 14, 2019 by

To help scientists in “applying artificial intelligence (AI) to help understand and protect the planet”, Microsoft and National Geographic have partnered up to sponsor AI for Earth Innovation Gran...
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The Swipe Right Love Story

February 14, 2019 by

While the prospect of online dating is bleak, research has shown that its dystopian implication doesn’t deviate as far from our primitive instincts as we might think.
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UCSB Researcher Studies Carbon Storage in Soil

February 7, 2019 by

“What we found that was really interesting was that the absorption capacity for carbon really depends on climate to a very great extent,” Chadwick said.
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Reduce, Reuse and Reconsider the Effectiveness of Recycling

February 7, 2019 by

Geyer’s study showed that only nine percent of the plastic ever produced has been recycled.
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Let’s Tau-lk about Tau: Exploring the Protein

January 31, 2019 by

The Han research group has found a method that can track the healthy to pathological transition of the protein tau, which is implicated in diseases including Alzheimer's.
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Recapping the 1st Annual Womxn/Hacks

January 31, 2019 by

This past weekend, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) at UCSB hosted their first annual Womxn/Hacks on campus.
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Gut Feeling: Studying Interactions in the Microbiome

January 24, 2019 by

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It’s not just the individual microbes but, rather, it’s the microbes in their context," Jones said.
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Microbial Assassins: Changing the Face of Modern Antibiotics

January 17, 2019 by

"We can equip helpful bacteria with a toxin-delivering system to target and destroy harmful ones. Such specificity could give us more control over our microbiome and our health," Song said.
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Underneath the Surface: Shrinking Groundwater in the United States

January 17, 2019 by

The team calculated the degree of separation between fresh groundwater and brackish groundwater in over 25 sedimentary basins throughout the United States.
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UCSB Researchers Help Develop New Technique to Detect Changes in Bone Structure

January 10, 2019 by

The micro-Texture technique can still produce high-resolution data that can help in diagnosing and monitoring diseases without the need to acquire an entire 2-D magnetic resonance image.
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UCSB Researchers Study Diet of Population With ‘World’s Healthiest Arteries’

November 29, 2018 by

As the Tsimané and Mosetén populations experience an ongoing nutrition transition, the study illustrates the link between diet and an increase in noncommunicable chronic diseases.
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Improving Shark Sanctuaries

November 15, 2018 by

UCSB researchers set out to understand shark movement in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean consisting of hundreds of small atolls and islands. I...
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