Science & Tech

April 12, 2011

Study Makes Top 40 List to Help Focus Research

By Daily Nexus Staff

A plethora of scientists have released a set of 40 questions that they believe will help guide collaboration between scientific researchers and policy makers on conservation issues in the U.S. The compilation of inquirie...

March 29, 2011

Biocontrol Beetle Beats Back Problematic Plant Species

By Tiare Hoegerman

According to a recent study, in which two UCSB scientists were collaborating authors, the troublesome invasion of the tamarisk — a non-native tree which has overrun rivers in the western U.S. — can be controlled thro...

March 1, 2011

Open Source Community Convenes for Southern California Linux Expo

By Nader Heidari

Casual users, software developers, hardware manufacturers and open-source all-arounders met in the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel for the ninth Southern California Linux Expo, or SCALE 9x.

March 1, 2011

Siberian Lake Ecology Linked to Atmosphere

By Brittany Avila

UCSB’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis has analyzed data collected from Lake Baikal in Siberia and found relations between atmospheric pressures and seasonality of the lake, which affect its overa...

February 22, 2011

Spectrometry Method Reveals Self-Assembly Process of Peptides

By Nader Heidari

Scientists at UCSB have used a new spectroscopic method to observe the assembly of amyloid fibrils — long-chain proteins that form in patients with certain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.

February 15, 2011

CNN To Broadcast Documentary About UCSB Researchers

By Internexus

UCSB professor Kenneth Kosik’s research on Alzheimer’s disease in Colombia was featured in the documentary “Filling the Blank,” which will air Feb. 19 on CNN. The program follows the work of Kosik and other resea...

February 15, 2011

Kepler Mission Identifies Possibly Habitable Planets

By Brittany Avila

UCSB scientists Tim Brown and Avi Shporer are involved in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kepler mission, which has recently added 54 new planet candidates in the habitable zone of a star, bringing ...

February 8, 2011

Climate Change May Decrease Rainfall Levels in Eastern Africa

By Brittany Avila

UCSB geography researchers have published a study that presents a link between warming temperatures over the Indian Ocean and projections of decreased precipitation in East Africa. The study, published online in the jour...

February 1, 2011

Glacial Impurities Delay Ice’s Destruction

By Tiare Hoegerman

A study co-written by UCSB scientists demonstrates a link between debris on some Himalayan glaciers and the cessation of glacial melting. Debris layers of two or more centimeters found on certain Himalayan glaciers have ...

February 1, 2011

Dispersants Fail to Biodegrade Following Use in Gulf Oil Spill

By Nader Heidari

While the methane levels from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have returned to normal, the chemical dispersants used during the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may be here to stay. According to a study published ...

January 25, 2011

Space Telescope Gazes Into Origin of Universe

By Nader Heidari

Over one million kilometers away from Earth, a lone satellite orbits near the second Lagrangian point, scanning the sky for the fallout left behind from the Big Bang.

January 18, 2011

UC Briefs

By Nader Heidari

Researchers at UCLA have discovered that coffee’s protective effects against Type 2 diabetes may be attributed to a protein that regulates sex hormones...

January 13, 2011

Scientists Find Nanomaterials Accumulate in Small Predators

By Tiare Hoegerman

Researchers at UCSB have found that certain nanoparticles may have not-so-nano impacts within simple food chains. Published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the study suggests that the toxic effects of protoz...

January 13, 2011

Organisms Clean Up Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico

By Daily Nexus Staff

Methane-munching bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico have surprised scientists with their ability to quickly consume the hazardous compound after the record-breaking Deepwater Horizon oil spill that occurred in April 2010. Th...

January 4, 2011