Science & Tech

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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Synthesis to Degradation: Building a Chemical Database

April 24, 2014 by

Imagine every known chemical and compound: ammonia, ethanol, pure water, diamond ­­— the list goes on. Yet every day more chemicals are discovered and registered with the American Chemical Society...
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NASA’s Cassini Uncovers Lost Seas Within Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

April 16, 2014 by

NASA announced last week that its Cassini spacecraft uncovered the existence of a large body of water underneath the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. Enceladus has been a fixation of the...
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Researchers Develop Self-Regenerating Muscles That Can Survive Cobra Venom, Grow in Mice

April 16, 2014 by

Researchers at Duke University recently engineered a muscle bundle that mirrors naturally-occurring muscle — they proved it by inserting it into a mouse and watching the muscle grow through a litera...
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