Science & Tech

October 19, 2010

Ecologists Question Reasons for Plant Diversity

By Tahnee Cadrez

Researchers at UCSB have discovered environmental connections between the diversity of plants and how they maintain ecological balance.

October 12, 2010

Physicists Make Quantum Leap

By Taylor Mravic

Physicists at UCSB recently published a paper in the journal Nature that could pave the way to building the first quantum computer.

October 12, 2010

Marine Mucus Mucks Up Ocean

By Amy Montemayor

Researchers have found that oil released into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon spill has caused stressed-out phytoplankton to create massive globs of “sea-snot”.

October 5, 2010

Lab To Receive Nanotech Grant

By Roger Jackson

Last Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health announced that they were awarding a $2 million grant to UCSB to be used for discovering biomedical applications of nanotechnology.

September 28, 2010

Research Ship To Evaluate Gulf

By Cameron Moody

This past Friday marked the departure of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ship Pisces from Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico.

September 28, 2010

Scientists Study Fighting Worms

By Roger Jackson

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.

September 16, 2010

Chilled Diamonds Shine Light on Comet Collision

By Nader Heidari

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.

August 25, 2010

Furthering Human Knowledge? There’s a University for That.

By Nader Heidari

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

August 4, 2010

New Labs Commence Studies of Stem Cells

By Nader Heidari

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.

July 14, 2010

Marine Professors Take On the Spill

By Nader Heidari

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.

May 25, 2010

Binary Star System Discovery Confirms Cosmological Theories

By Cameron Moody

The science behind dwarf stars has become a bit clearer thanks to the discovery of a certain pair of stars obscuring each other.

May 25, 2010

Examination of Fossils Results in Reclassification of Specimen

By Bianca Licata

What prehistoric creature has sharp teeth, lots of scales and was recently examined by a team of UCSB scientists?

May 11, 2010

Scientists Find Future in Flawed Diamonds

By Bianca Licata

Although Kay Jewelers might disagree, a team of UCSB researchers believes defective diamonds have never looked so good.

May 4, 2010

Biologists Locate New Monitor Lizard Species

By Bianca Licata

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.

April 27, 2010

UCSB Geologists Find Underwater Volcanoes

By Katherine Friedman

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.

April 19, 2010

Orbit Eccentricity Oscillates Climate

By Richard Lau

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 years.