Science & Tech

Celebrating the Nobel Laureates of 2015

October 15, 2015 by

The Nobel Prize recipients were announced last week, and prizes for science were awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine. The three categories of awards were split among...
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Let There Be Light

October 15, 2015 by

The United Nations has declared 2015 the International Year of Light. To honor that, UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering along with the Institute of Energy Efficiency (IEE) hosted a light symp...
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Newly Discovered Parasite Named After UCSB Professor

October 8, 2015 by

You may see Armand Kuris, parasitologist and professor in the Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology department, wearing a new T-shirt, which has a picture of the new discovered fish parasite, Chlorom...
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Researchers Develop Improved Method To Screen for Neural Toxicity

October 8, 2015 by

Traditional methods for testing neural toxicity have often been costly and, at times, failed to detect certain compounds toxic to the brain. However, researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison, ...
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UCSB Researchers Find Possible Factor to Delay Onset of Alzheimer’s

October 1, 2015 by

Although a definitive cure for Alzheimer’s is distant at this time, researchers at UCSB have discovered a possible factor important in delaying the onset of the disease. Co-authors Dr. Kenneth Kosik...
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A New Definition of ‘Cheating’

October 1, 2015 by

In the scientific community it has been widely accepted that there is a large amount of cheating by members of mutualistic partnerships. According to a new study conducted by scientists at the Nationa...
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Global Plastic Pollution Threatens Seabirds

September 24, 2015 by

Plastic pollution has been an important global environmental concern for decades due to the rapid amount of plastic production and consumption. Until now, scientists have not been able to quantify the...
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KeyRaider Steals Over 225,000 Apple Accounts

September 24, 2015 by

The largest known Apple account theft occurred this summer when over 225,000 Apple accounts were confiscated by malware software nicknamed, KeyRaider. Cydia, a software distribution and installation t...
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Earth Versus Asteroid: Who Will Win?

September 17, 2015 by

Natural disasters and the diminishing of Earth’s resources are only some of the problems that humans have to face; there is also the threat of asteroids colliding into Earth and causing a razing of ...
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Battle of the Bacteria

September 17, 2015 by

UCSB researchers recently demonstrated how Gram-negative bacteria, such as E. coli, exploit target-cell machinery of nearby bacteria and use protein toxins to kill them. Their work furthers current un...
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Scientists Discover Single-Celled Marine Plankton Staring Back at Them

September 7, 2015 by

Scientists at the University of British Columbia have identified an eye-like structure in a rare, single-celled marine plankton from the family Warnowiaceae. It is more common that multicellular organ...
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A New Era for Antibiotics Resistance Testing

August 31, 2015 by

A new study by UCSB Professor Michael Mahan and researchers shows that, for as long as they have been studied, pathogenic bacteria may not have been playing up to how they are really made to be. In th...
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UCSB Researcher Receives NASA Grant for Space Research on Interstellar Travel

August 27, 2015 by

UC Santa Barbara physics professor, Phillip Lubin, and his team from UCSB’s Experimental Cosmology Group have been awarded one of 15 proof-of-concept grants from NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts to...
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UCSB Professor Announced as NFL Sponsored Grant Recipient

August 13, 2015 by

Imagine awaking in an emergency room. A doctor assures that you have suffered a mild concussion from an early morning bike crash, and that you’ll be back attending class in no time. But a week or tw...
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Scientists Get Nosy About the Sense of Smell

August 9, 2015 by

Often times, children pinch their noses when eating brussel sprouts — or any other type of food deemed unpleasant — to mitigate the terrible taste because the sense of taste is dependent on the se...
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