Science & Tech

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...

May 17, 2018

Hippopotamus Dung Affects African Ecosystem

By Stephanie Pernett

In sub-Saharan Africa, deforestation, water-intensive agriculture and climate change are significantly altering water cycles and causing many rivers to begin to dry. A recent study by UC Santa Barbara researcher K...

May 16, 2018

UCSB Linguistics Professor Explains ‘Yanny’ vs. ‘Laurel’

By Bob Kennedy

Personally, I heard “Yanny” on a cheap PC speaker, but “Laurel” on better earphones myself.

May 10, 2018

UCSB Researcher Evaluates Sundowner Winds

By Stephanie Pernett

One of the most beautiful views in Santa Barbara is seeing the Santa Ynez Mountains from the beach. However, this positioning can lead to dangerous situations when it comes to wildfires because the air heats and dries as...

April 18, 2018

The Children Are Preparing for the Future

By Stephanie Pernett

As climate change continues to alter ecosystems, many organisms have had to adapt in order to overcome fluctuations in their environment. It is important to understand the mechanisms in which organisms can respond to a r...

April 11, 2018

UCSB Researchers Advance Coral Restoration

By Stephanie Pernett

Corals are in rapid decline on many reefs due to global stressors associated with climate change, such as increasing sea surface temperatures that cause coral bleaching and disease, as well as local stressors like nutrie...