Science & Tech

Scientists Study Fighting Worms

September 28, 2010 by

A recent discovery at the laboratory has shown that a certain type of parasitic fluke has a highly organized, caste-based social structure similar to those of honey bees.
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Chilled Diamonds Shine Light on Comet Collision

September 16, 2010 by

A grueling journey across the ice sheets of Greenland has paid off for a team of scientists, who have located some diamonds in the rough glacial climate.
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Furthering Human Knowledge? There’s a University for That.

August 25, 2010 by

If you type “UCSB” into Google you’ll probably come up with more than a few “University of Casual Sex and Beer” innuendos.
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New Labs Commence Studies of Stem Cells

August 4, 2010 by

The UCSB Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering has recently begun to utilize new facilities on campus to perform research to advance the field of regenerative medicine.
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Marine Professors Take On the Spill

July 14, 2010 by

When the April 20 explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to one of the largest oil spills in history, UCSB scientists sprang into action.
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Binary Star System Discovery Confirms Cosmological Theories

May 25, 2010 by

The science behind dwarf stars has become a bit clearer thanks to the discovery of a certain pair of stars obscuring each other.
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Examination of Fossils Results in Reclassification of Specimen

May 25, 2010 by

What prehistoric creature has sharp teeth, lots of scales and was recently examined by a team of UCSB scientists?
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Scientists Find Future in Flawed Diamonds

May 11, 2010 by

Although Kay Jewelers might disagree, a team of UCSB researchers believes defective diamonds have never looked so good.
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Biologists Locate New Monitor Lizard Species

May 4, 2010 by

A recently discovered species of monitor lizard was reported last week in the journal Zootaxa by a team consisting of a UCSB professor and a Finnish researcher.
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UCSB Geologists Find Underwater Volcanoes

April 27, 2010 by

A newly released study conducted in part by a team of UCSB scientists has discovered a series of ancient underwater volcanoes off the Santa Barbara coast, roughly 700 feet below the sea level.
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Orbit Eccentricity Oscillates Climate

April 19, 2010 by

In a paper published in this month's issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, UCSB geologist Lorraine Lisiecki linked slow but regular warping of Earth's orbit to climate changes over the past million ...
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Physicist Joe Incandela on the LHC

April 13, 2010 by

On March 30, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle collider, set a new world record by smashing two 3.5 trillion electron volt (TeV) proton beams to produce a 7 TeV collision.
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UCSB Researchers Compute From the Cloud

April 13, 2010 by

UCSB has become an important influence in the field of cloud computing, a system that shares processing data and resources between multiple computers via the internet.
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Receptors Keep Neural Stem Cells From Getting Dropped

April 6, 2010 by

An insulin-like signal has been found to be necessary for stem cells to continue existing in the brain, opening doors for scientists who want to find ways to repair cerebral injuries using the pluripo...
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Engineers Desalinate With a Membrane

April 6, 2010 by

UCLA researchers have produced a tool to remove the salt content from water while avoiding the problems that arise from clogging during the purification of difficult types of water.
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