Science & Tech

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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Snowy Plovers Cuddling Up For Start of Nesting Season

April 9, 2014 by

Spring is a time of renewal, and as our university community enters a fresh spring quarter, our beach cohabitants, the Western Snowy Plover, also embark on a period of transition with the start of a n...
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There’s a Latte Ways Caffeine Can Affect You

April 9, 2014 by

One-third of the world’s population consumes coffee on a regular basis. The average American drinks three cups of coffee a day. Many people — especially college students — indulge in the revital...
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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Hosts a “Science Cafe” Featuring Astrophysicist Matteo Cantiello Speaking on Stars

April 5, 2014 by

Despite the broad and plentiful array of research abounding on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, many do not have the opportunity to learn about these scientific explorations in an a...
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Scientists Awed, Skeptical Over Mature Cell Reprogramming

March 5, 2014 by

Concerns are continuing to arise over the news that researchers from Japan recently discovered a revolutionary phenomenon in which mature differentiated cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent...
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Fossil Free Protests UC’s Funding of Fossil Fuel Giants

March 5, 2014 by

The past decade has presented academic institutions as leaders in addressing the issue of climate change through extensive research and education. Yet it turns out that they many academic institutions...
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KAVLI Introduces Educators to Emerging Science Concepts

February 26, 2014 by

Dozens of teachers from around the country gathered at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) to participate in “The Physics of Flocking: From Cells to Crowds,” a full-day worksho...
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Looking to Slim Down? Try Skipping the Skim Milk

February 26, 2014 by

Among the endless diet fads and craze to eat healthy and stay thin, our first instinct when dieting is to grab everything off supermarket shelves that is labeled with “low-fat” or — even better ...
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UCSB Researchers Develop Tool to Trace How Bodies Metabolize Drugs

February 19, 2014 by

A biomedical technology once thought impossible came to fruition thanks to University of California, Santa Barbara researchers Kevin Plaxco, a biochemistry professor, Tom Soh, a mechanical engineering...
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