Science & Tech

May 11, 2017

Opinion Maps Detail Americans’ Climate Beliefs

By Jacqueline Wen

From 2008 to 2016, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication ran major opinion polls on U.S. climate beliefs, surveying over 18,000 American adults bi-annually. Through the survey they found that the national aver...

May 4, 2017

Parrotfish More Concerned With Food Than Predators

By Natalie Overton

While the Daisy Parrotfish are not at the top of the marine food chain, their priorities do not lie in avoiding potential predators but rather finding their next meal.

May 4, 2017

Engineering a Solution for Diabetes

By Stephanie Pernett

Sumita Pennathur, an associate professor in the mechanical engineering department has been awarded $1.625 million to continue her research in diabetic monitoring.

April 30, 2017

Research Shows U.S. and UK Share Similar Fracking Concerns

By Aimee Miller

While the United States and the United Kingdom are separated by an ocean, researchers at UCSB find that these two countries share concerns about hydraulic fracking.

April 30, 2017

R.E.M.A.D.E. Crusade: UCSB Improves Energy Efficiency

By Jacqueline Wen

The R.E.M.A.D.E. institute at UCSB aims to find new ways to reuse metals, polymers and fibers.

April 20, 2017

Newly Discovered Microorganisms Possess Self-mutating Gene

By Kirstie Allen

Paul Blair and David Valentine of UCSB's Marne Science Institute teamed up with UCs and found microorganisms that can self mutant.

April 20, 2017

UCSB Researchers Find New Causes of Extinction

By Aimee Miller

A group of UC Santa Barbara researchers collaborated on a project combining several disciplines, including ecology, economics and conservation biology. Their objective was to examine and analyze many of the species that ...

April 20, 2017

Research Discoveries Lead to Art of Science Competition

By Dhanika Halili

The Art of Science initiative recognizes the creative and experimental nature of science and challenges UCSB researchers to visually communicate the beauty inherent to scientific investigations.

April 13, 2017

Drought in East Africa Predicted by Dataset

By Stephanie Pernett

A dataset compiled with the help of UCSB researchers has been able to predict droughts that have have been affecting East Africa

April 13, 2017

A Better Diet May Save Money and the Environment

By Stephanie Pernett

UCSB researcher David Cleveland and his colleagues have found that by making improvements in the standard American diet could reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.

April 6, 2017

Cooperation May Lead to Coral Reef Improvement

By Aimee Miller

Two senior fellows at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis solution build a model to analysis how fixing road segments in Hawaii could benefit its coral reefs.

April 6, 2017

Whale Conservation To Receive Multimillion Dollar Solution

By Stephanie Pernett

Researchers from UCSB and other institutions will use money received from the Benioff Ocean Initiative to find a solution for ship strikes.

March 9, 2017

UCSB Researchers Find Cliff Erosion Due to El Niño

By Dhanika Halili

As homes on cliffs are becoming more vulnerable to erosion following storms, researchers explain that erosion will be common as storms get worse.

March 9, 2017

Scent Trumps Attraction When Searching For a Mate

By Jacqueline Wen

UCSB biologist reveals that choosing the ideal insect mate is a combination of looks and smell.

March 9, 2017

Researchers Analyze Vision and Attention after Exercise

By Aimee Miller

It is known that exercise has numerous benefits to both mental and physical health, the question is what kind of exercise is more beneficial: low intensity or high intensity exercise.

March 2, 2017

Stop! Hammer Time

By Jacqueline Wen

With the hopes of discovering how individual neural cells react to impacts, researchers in the mechanical engineering department at UCSB are working on developing the world's smallest hammer.