Science & Tech

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.

April 13, 2010

Physicist Joe Incandela on the LHC

By Nader Heidari

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.

April 13, 2010

UCSB Researchers Compute From the Cloud

By Josie Rushton

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.

April 6, 2010

Receptors Keep Neural Stem Cells From Getting Dropped

By Nader Heidari

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 pluripotent organisms.

April 6, 2010

Engineers Desalinate With a Membrane

By Nader Heidari

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.

April 6, 2010

Physicists Create Particularly Strange Matter

By Nader Heidari

An antihyperparticle, which contains the anti-matter equivalents of "strange" quarks, was produced by a team of scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

April 6, 2010

University Receives Donation for New Medical Center

By Nader Heidari

A $75 million gift from former Qualcomm Incorporated CEO and UC San Diego founding faculty member Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan Jacobs will go toward the construction of the Jacobs Medical Center on UCSD's east campus.

April 6, 2010

Plants Can’t Grow Fast, Repel Pests, Too

By Nader Heidari

Biologists have found that plants lose their ability to defend themselves against pests if they grow too fast, creating a paradox for farmers looking to make the perfect crop.