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Two workers in white coveralls and masks examine solar cells in a cleanroom.
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Alternatives to silicon-based solar cells could allow solar panel production to move out of cleanrooms like this.

UCSB pioneers a low-energy process for high-performance solar cells

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Jonathan Balkind receives NSF Early CAREER Award to improve cloud-based computing
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UC Santa Barbara’s Critical Issues in America series will examine the broad societal implications of aging and extension of longevity
Argentinian glacier as seen from ISS
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Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier as seen from the International Space Station

New NASA-funded research will build next-gen tech to better measure climate
A man on his smartphone is distracted from his family.
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Study finds parents’ phone use in front of their kids can harm emotional intelligence
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Ruminants such as cows, sheep and goats host anaerobic gut fungi that can break down tough cell walls

Researchers prove that tough, woody lignin can be broken down in an anaerobic environment
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Records from Platform Holly provide a glimpse of how petroleum production affects natural gas seeps
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Carlos G. Levi and Thuc-quyen Nguyen

Professors Thuc-Quyen Nguyen and Carlos G. Levi are elected to the National Academy of Engineering
A family, made up of a couple and their three children, in the Amazon stands together smiling.
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Michael Gurven
The Tsimane are an indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon

Researchers uncover natural selection for traits associated with immunity and metabolism in Tsimane and Moseten genomes
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Researchers uncover physical limitation in haptic holography
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Professor Tim Sherwood named an Association of Computing Machinery Fellow
Ainissa Ramirez stands onstage wearing a dark suit
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Materials scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez to present on little-known inventors
Gary Horowitz wears glasses and a blue shirt in a dark room
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Gary Horowitz

Physicist Gary Horowitz receives 2023 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society
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