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A large field of sunflowers near Sacramento.
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Tweaks to farming practices could preserve some of California’s declining water resources.

Small changes can yield big savings in agricultural water use

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Auger-Meitner Effect on electron energy loss
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Fangzhou Zhao
The trap-assisted Auger-Meitner effect allows for energy to be transferred to another electron.
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researchers working with Senegalese partners
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UCSB geographer David López-Carr, center left, and Stanford University health and environmental scientist Andrea Lund, center right, working with Senegalese partners
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dune plant and dune fence
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Karina Johnston
Beach bur, a native plant that helped to form dunes on a section of Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles
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concept of attaching radical molecule to aromatic compound
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Diatoms under the microscope.
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Diatoms are one of the largest groups of phytoplankton, which serve as a foundation of the ocean’s food web.
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Illustration of a transmitter assembly, including electronic and photonic integrated circuits
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In this image of the newly developed transmitter assembly, the small, brownish chip on the left is the electronic integrated circuit (EIC), and the larger, black-and-gold chip on the right is the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The long structure on the left side of the PIC is the modulator, which converts the electrical signal into an optical one. Light gets coupled into and out of the chip through the fibers on the right side of the PIC. Everything is mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB), with gold wire bonds connecting the chips. Data flows from left to right, where the incoming electrical signal gets amplified by the EIC, converted to an optical signal by the PIC, and sent out via fiber to its destination.
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an orange garibaldi with a scientific diver in the background
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Chris Honeyman
A research diver conducts periodic monitoring of a kelp forest marine protected area
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An AI-generated illustration of an engineer at a laptop, looking at a robot
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An AI-generated image depicts engineers working on an AI-enabled robot.
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A thinning forest on a hill.
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Lee Anderegg
A forest community changes as trembling aspen succumb to drought in southwestern Colorado.