Science & Tech
A recent study co-authored by Daniel Speiser, a postdoctoral fellow at UCSB’s Dept. of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology, provides strong evidence that the chiton, a simple mollusk, has developed...
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A study completed and authored by former UCSB biologist Bradley J. Cardinale confirms biodiversity as the driver of nutrient uptake in streams — a process which acts as the ecosystem’s natural cle...
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Researchers Help Henhouses By Fighting Pests With Pests Researchers from UC Riverside have found that when it comes to parasites found on chickens, two wrongs just may make a right. According to the r...
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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 com...
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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. — ca...
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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.
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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, wh...
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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 an...
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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 K...
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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 ...
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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, publishe...
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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 Hima...
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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 t...
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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.
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
