Science & Tech

August 27, 2018

UCSB Researcher Makes Headway in Cause of Brain Wrinkles

By Shwena Dhar

How the brain's self-assembly takes place and what physics come into play is fundamental to our understanding of the complex organ.

August 24, 2018

UCSB Researchers Work Toward Agricultural Carbon Solution

By Natalie Overton

Williams and his team explored the algorithm of maximizing crop yield while minimizing carbon loss to the atmosphere in three different world regions.

August 13, 2018

More than Meets the Eye

By Simran Kaur

The researchers’ analysis of extensive genetic data revealed that eyes originated at least eight times in cnidarians.

August 9, 2018

Going with the Flow

By Jacqueline Wen

As riffles and pools provide the foundation for stream habitats and environments, they can reveal much about the basic ecology of streams.

August 2, 2018

Doing More Harm Than Good?

By Simran Kaur

We over-respond to a particular wildfire, rather than having measured, consistent and persistent engagement with that risk.

July 30, 2018

UCSB Researchers Work on NASA’s EXPORTS Campaign

By Kirstie Allen

EXPORTS is designed to assess all the main pathways in which organic carbon is transported from the upper ocean into the ocean interior in the biological pump at the same time under varying environmental conditions.

July 23, 2018

UC’s Communication Strategies for Carbon Neutrality

By Jacqueline Wen

The CNI states it will need continuing efforts by stakeholder groups and multifarious parties, as well as engagement and cooperation across the UC community to reduce the university's carbon footprint.

July 13, 2018

UCSB’s Own BIFROST

By Jacqueline Wen

Like a faucet for light, BIFROST features a unique web interface that will allow researchers to log on to the instrument, select a desired wavelength or tuning range, and simply begin their work.

July 6, 2018

UCSB Joins Large-Scale Cancer Research Consortium

By Jacqueline Wen

Using broad evolutionary and ecological perspectives to look at cancer across the tree of life could help make great strides in cancer prevention and treatment mechanisms, according to Boddy.

July 6, 2018

Pacific O.R.C.A. Expedition

By Kirstie Allen

The OBSs will sit about 4,500 meters — a little under three miles beneath the ocean’s surface — for 15 months, recording earthquakes across the globe.

June 29, 2018

Where There’s a Whale, There’s a Way

By Jacqueline Wen

Without updating protection policies to reflect the right whale’s shifting distribution, the researchers predict the right whale may go extinct in as soon as 27 years.

June 7, 2018

No Longer a “Foote” Note

By Aimee Miller

When it comes to crediting one of the most consequential discoveries of the past two centuries, the scientific community is mistaken. Over 150 years ago, Eunice Newton Foote released her findings on carbon dioxide’s em...

June 7, 2018

Consciousness Conundrum

By Jacqueline Wen

In everyday conversations, we often use the words “mind” and “brain” interchangeably. For psychologists and other researchers studying the mind-brain problem, the two terms hold very different meanings. The mind-...

June 7, 2018

Get through the Siege

By Jiaming Yang

Javier Read de Alaniz, the chemistry professor and the associate director of the California NanoSystem Institute (CNSI) at UCSB, recently embarked on a new $7.5 million, five-year Multidisciplinary Research Initiative (M...

June 6, 2018

Cloud Frequency and Formation Declines

By Stephanie Pernett

In much of coastal southern California, the frequency of summer clouds has declined rapidly in recent decades due to warming from urbanization and greenhouse gases. These reductions have significantly reduced cloud shadi...

May 24, 2018

Researchers Publish Special Edition Paper on Marine Biology

By Stephanie Pernett

Research biologists from UC Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute (MSI) have edited a special edition of Marine Ecology that sets the stage for future long-term monitoring of marine protected areas. California’s 1...