A discovery by physicists at UC Santa Barbara may earn silicon carbide –– a semiconductor commonly used by the electronics industry –– a role at the center of a new generation of information technologies designed to exploit quantum physics for...
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Letters and Science, EconomicsWhile virtually every career option is open to women –– professional sports aside –– a gender gap still persists regarding their financial compensation.
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Letters and Science, Psychological and Brain SciencesTwo psychologists at UC Santa Barbara have provided a new twist on the old adage that people are products of both nature and nurture, in introducing a framework for understanding how these influences interact.
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Letters and Science, Earth Science(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara's Department of Earth Science has received a $553,000 award from Seismic Micro-Technology Inc.
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Letters and Science, Earth ScienceThanks to John Cottle, people who enjoy reading about science online are about to get a feel for what research is like in Antarctica, as it's happening.
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Letters and Science, Ecology Evolution and Marine BiologyMight a penguin's next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe? The answer may be yes, when you add your exhaust fumes to the total amount of carbon dioxide lofted into the atmosphere by humans since the industrial revolution.
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Letters and Science, Ecology Evolution and Marine BiologyCan fish save coral reefs from dying? UC Santa Barbara researchers have found one case where fish have helped coral reefs to recover from cyclones and predators.
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Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Letters and Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Earth ScienceWhen UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, some...
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Letters and Science, Ecology Evolution and Marine BiologyA new study of flower petals shows evolution in action, and contradicts more that 60 years of scientific thought.
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Letters and Science, Writing ProgramLinda Adler-Kassner, director of the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara, has been invited to visit the White House on Friday, October 7, to meet with officials from the U.S. Department of Education.
