Science & Tech

UCSB Researchers Successfully Immortalize Rodent Stem Cells

December 4, 2014 by

Researchers led by UC Santa Barbara Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology professor James Thomson recently found a way to hold mouse stem cells on the threshold of differentiation, allowing them t...
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Santa Barbara’s Doctors Without Walls Turns Tech

November 20, 2014 by

Beyond the beaches and beautiful weather of Santa Barbara lies a prevalent homeless population. Since 2008, however, the organization Doctors Without Walls — Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW-SBSM)...
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MCDB Professor Receives Grant to Study Polycystic Kidney Disease

November 20, 2014 by

UCSB Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Thomas Weimbs, was recently awarded a three-year grant for $600,000 by the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust of New York to support his l...
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A Week of Science Round-Ups

October 23, 2014 by

1. Top-secret military space plane returns from orbit. On Oct. 17, an ultra-secret space plane belonging to the United States Air Force touched down in Southern California. Unbeknownst to the world, t...
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A Look Into the Physics Behind Shuji Nakamura’s Nobel Prize

October 16, 2014 by

Shuji Nakamura, Professor of Materials and Research Director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at UCSB, recently received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics from the Roya...
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Adding Mathematics to the Biological Equation

October 9, 2014 by

Mathematics can be used to express a variety of phenomena; a masterful Mozart sonata, for example, can be represented as an elaborate sequence of longitudinal pressure waves or acoustic wave functions...
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UCSB Outreach Allows Kids Deep-Sea Insight

October 9, 2014 by

UCSB’s Marine Science Institute (MSI) is partnering with Robert Ballard — most famously known for his discovery of the Titanic — through the MSI’s new facility for Outreach to Teach Ocean Scie...
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UCSB Engineers Introduce An Innovative Biosensor that Rivals Graphene in Sensitivity

September 25, 2014 by

UC Santa Barbara researchers recently engineered a 2-D next-generation field-effect transistor (FET) biosensor using molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a compound 75 times more sensitive than graphene in de...
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Artificial Intelligence: Can Science Truly Recreate You?

August 27, 2014 by

With the unprecedented rise of millennial computing, lightning fast telecommunication, vibrant social media and virtually limitless access to information, our lives are consumed by a torrent of powerf...
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American Doctors Respond Successfully to Ebola Treatment

August 27, 2014 by

Two Americans doctors infected by the recent outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Liberia were released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Aug. 21 following a successful treatment with the...
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Behind the Psychology of Trauma, Grief and Healing

May 28, 2014 by

Many in our Isla Vista and UCSB community experienced fear and grief in the days since the May 23rd tragedy. When fear sets in [...]
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Nintendo Slated to Release Revamped Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire for Nintendo 3DS this November

May 21, 2014 by

Suraj Sood details Nintendo's latest title announcement.
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Geologists Discover 2.7 Million-Year-Old Landscape Hidden Beneath Greenland’s Ice

May 7, 2014 by

Scientists were recently shocked to discover an ancient tundra located two miles below the Greenland Ice Sheet [...]
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TEDx Hosts UCSB Faculty to ‘Spread Ideas Worth Sharing’

April 30, 2014 by

This past Saturday evening, UC Santa Barbara’s Regents and Chancellor’s Scholars Association invited seven esteemed faculty members to share their ideas and wisdom at the second annual TEDx event....
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Mitsubishi Extending MRL Partnership with $6 Million

April 24, 2014 by

Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM) — a UCSB entity representing the ongoing materials research alliance between Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Tokyo) and UCSB — has recen...
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