Science & Tech

Yoga: More Than a Trend

January 29, 2014 by

You are in your biweekly evening yoga class. Your mind is cleared from the clutter of your busy day; you’re calm and there is an equal boost of energy with every pose and breathing exercise. Finally...
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A Breakdown of Nutrition Labels

January 22, 2014 by

When deciding what to eat, we want the most filling and flavorful foods. Given that students are pressed for time and money, it becomes more difficult to meet nutritional and caloric needs.
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UCSB Scientists to Drill 2,000 Meters Below Sea

January 22, 2014 by

This coming March UCSB Earth Science professor Cathy Busby will lead a group of over 50 scientists on an expedition off the coast of Japan to discover more about how continents form. The expedition wi...
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Scientists Discover Ancient and Luminous Supernovae

January 15, 2014 by

Imagine how bright something must be in order for us to see it from 10 billion light-years away, or approximately 9.5 x1025 meters. Often it is bright enough to keep us awake during an all-night final...
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Searching for Dark Matter a Mile Underground

January 15, 2014 by

To cap off the year in science, the European journal Nature named the Large Underground Xenon Dark Matter (LUX) experiment­­­ — a search for dark matter in which faculty of the physics department...
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Late Bedtime? Expect Lower GPA, More Emotional Stress

January 8, 2014 by

Researchers at the Golden Bear Sleep & Mood Research Clinic at UC Berkeley recently found that teenagers who go to sleep later are more likely to face emotional and academic problems down the road tha...
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UCSB College of Engineering Researchers Design Innovative PTSD Diagnosis Technique

January 8, 2014 by

The end of war brings home soldiers, and accompanying many of these veterans is post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. This disorder occurs after experiencing a stressful or frightening event and often...
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A Data Storage Device Built to Outlive Ourselves by 1 Million Years

November 5, 2013 by

The past few decades in technology advancement have increased data storage capacities while simultaneously reducing the size of storage devices. Yet until now, modern storage devices have not been des...
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Greenhouse Emissions Rise as Projects Aimed to Cool Are Placed on Back Burner

October 22, 2013 by

Despite continued and growing evidence of climate change, the disparity between the amount of effort required to slow the process and the amount of projects aimed at such a goal continues to grow.
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Taking a Look at How We Define Intelligence

October 22, 2013 by

Intelligence: it’s a notion we’re all intimately familiar with. After all, we are intelligent, right? Do we not attend a top-tier public university? Have we not made all the necessary, intelligent...
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UCSB Makes Quantum Leaps in Rapid Information Transfer

October 15, 2013 by

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara recently addressed a major issue in security by successfully transferring reliable and ultra-secure communication via quantum-encrypted infor...
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U.S. Scientists Awarded 2013 Nobel Prize In Physiology or Medicine for Discovery of Mechanism Behind Cell Transport

October 15, 2013 by

Cells replicate, grow and communicate by transporting specific molecules to specific targets. But how exactly do cells carry out these vital and intricate movements among themselves?
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Testosterone and Sharing: A Scientific Oxymoron

October 8, 2013 by

Long gone are the days of believing that increased testosterone levels only lead to hostility, competitiveness and aggressiveness. Scientists and economists in the Netherlands published a study this m...
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UCSB Researchers Unravel Membrane Protein Structure

October 8, 2013 by

As you pick up this issue of the Nexus and turn the page to the Science & Tech section, millions of membrane proteins are hard at work inside your body. All the body’s functions, from movement t...
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SpaceX Launches New Rocket

October 1, 2013 by

SpaceX’s new Falcon 9 V1.1 rocket launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California this past Sunday to carry Canada’s 1,100-pound CASSIOPE research satellite into space.
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