Science & Tech

Beneficial Bacterias: The Friends Your Belly is Aching For

When I hear the word bacteria, I still get chills imagining the endless wait on a freezing chair at the doctor’s office with those fluorescent lights glaring at me. Though bacteria has received a ba...
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UCSB Scientists Recieve Award For Artificial Pancreas Research

A team of researchers from UCSB and the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute were recently selected from a pool of 128 entrants to receive the 2nd Annual Wyss Institute IEEE EMBS Award for Translational...
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Researchers Study Diagram Literacy

A team of researchers from UCSB, Vanderbilt University and West Carolina University presented their work, a study on the effects of diagram orientation on interpretation abilities, in the most recent ...
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Get To Know a Researcher: Thomas Weimbs

Thomas Weimbs, an Associate Professor in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department since 2007, has a lab at UCSB focuses on uncovering the underlying mechanisms of Autosomal Dominan...
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Make the Most of Your Years at UCSB

Ah yes, College. The habits you adopt during your time here are likely to stay with you for life. As I approach my last year at this incredible institution, there are a few tidbits I wish I knew earli...
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Curiosity Arrives on the Red Planet

The latest Mars rover Curiosity departed from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last November and landed safely on the surface of the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012 making it the fourth American rover succ...
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UCSB Environmental Research Teams Spearhead Groundbreaking Projects

Urban Water Contamination Study Backed by a $1.25 million contribution from veteran water industry exec- utive Henry Wheeler, Jr., UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science and Management Environmenta...
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UCSB Lecturer Creates Visual Arts-Based Physics Teaching System

Jatila van der Veen, a lecturer in the College of Creative Studies as well as a research associate in UCSB’s Physics Dept., created a new method in teaching introductory physics called “Noether Be...
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The Down Low on Dopamine

Do you find yourself taking Facebook breaks every five minutes? Well, it may just be your human nature. According to a recent study conducted by Vanderbilt University, researchers found the neurotrans...
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Astronomers Use New Technique to Study the Expansion of Black Holes

An international team of astronomers in Chile employed three powerful telescopes to peer into the heart of a galaxy tens of millions of light years away. The astronomers observed the hot accretion dis...
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Updated Marine Mapping Program Near Completion

UCSB Marine Science Institute project scientist Will McClintock is currently completing SeaSketch, a new version of the free web-based marine mapping and spatial planning program, MarineMap. The progr...
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UCSB Researchers Identify Semi-Conductor Polymers, Further Printable Electronics

UCSB researchers teamed up with North Carolina State physicists to determine why certain materials are better than others for use in printable electronics. Through the use of powerful X-rays that can ...
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How Spicing Up Your Plate Can Spice Up Your Health: The Truth About Peppers

Watch out salt, pepper just got even spicier! For most of our post-Gerber days, many of us have been aimlessly smothering black pepper on our meals to enhance its taste. Although this act is immediate...
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When Tech and Health Collide: LOL-ing and Driving

Texting while driving has become NBD. In fact, data from the University of California, San Diego’s Trauma Epidemiology & Injury Prevention Research Center suggests this act is quite widespread a...
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UCSB Mechanical Engineering Professor Launches Investigation on Fluid Dynamics of Coffee Spills

Upon observing colleagues struggle to keep their coffee from spilling at a math conference, UCSB professor of mechanical engineering Rouslan Krechetnikov began a research project to study this phenome...
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