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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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Matt Perko
This is a story about proteins, how they malfunction, and what cells do to prevent that.
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Meandering rivers create a dynamic landscape, depositing sand bars and eroding steep banks as they undulate across their floodplains.
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Matt Perko; courtesy
M. Scott Shell, left, and Beth Pruitt, right
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Clockwise, from left: Matthew Unger, Riya Nilkrant, Xuanwei Liang, Isaac Hair, Anika Jena
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NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Conger and Elizabeth Josephson
North Atlantic right whale mother and calf as seen from a research drone called a hexacopter
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Sonia Fernandez
The CoastSnap cradle on the steps to East Campus Beach
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Charles Lester
The ocean is advancing on California, and we need to determine how we will respond.
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Neha Pincha Shroff and Pengfei Xu
Tooth epithelium (cell surface; yellow) and mesenchyme (cell surface; magenta). Proliferating cells (cyan) expand the tissue, generating a mechanical pressure at the tissue center that drives the formation of the main tooth signaling center or organizer, the enamel knot.
