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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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Physicists Create Particularly Strange Matter

April 6, 2010 by

An antihyperparticle, which contains the anti-matter equivalents of "strange" quarks, was produced by a team of scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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University Receives Donation for New Medical Center

April 6, 2010 by

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 ...
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Plants Can’t Grow Fast, Repel Pests, Too

April 6, 2010 by

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.
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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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University Receives Donation for New Medical Center

April 6, 2010 by

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 ...
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Plants Can’t Grow Fast, Repel Pests, Too

April 6, 2010 by

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.
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Telescope Finds New Gas Giant

March 30, 2010 by

An international team of astronomers spearheaded by the French space agency, CNES, have confirmed the existence of a planet named CoRoT-9b. Members of this team included scientists from the UCSB-affil...
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Scientists Succeed at Large-Scale Superposition

March 30, 2010 by

Physicists at UCSB have proven that it's not just the size of an object that matters when it comes to displaying quantum effects.
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Cybersleuths Seek to Build New Defense

March 2, 2010 by

Earlier this month, UCSB's Computer Security Group received a grant of $6.2 million from the U.S. Army Research Office to lead an intercampus collaboration to design a security system that can protect...
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Study Seeks to Reel In Global Fish Problems

February 23, 2010 by

A group of scientists led by UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University published a policy paper this month, calling for...
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