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  • Sophisticated Skin
    iridescent squid skin
    Squids’ remarkable ability to tune both the color and the brightness of their iridescence comes down to a subtle but powerful mechanism
  • Innovation Honored
    headshots of two UCSB professors
    Steven DenBaars and Shuji Nakamura to be honored at the 2021 Central Coast Innovation Awards
  • A Tangled Food Web
    a hand holds feed pellets for farmed fish
    Trophic levels are an ‘insufficient’ measure of sustainability for today’s aquaculture policy
  • Cellular Seafood
    Two fillets of white fish sit on a wooden chop block flanked by a lemon on the lower left, a bowl of peppercorns on the upper right, sprigs of parsley, and a smattering of salt.
    Researchers detail the long chain of events required for cultured seafood to deliver environmental benefits
  • A Dynamic Forest Floor
    Dozens of giant kelp frons rise form the seafloor, illuminated from behind by diffuse blue light. A sheephead fish blends into its surroundings in the lower center of the image.
    A new model reveals how two different communities coexist beneath the canopies of California’s iconic kelp forests
  • Poking the Paradigm
    An orange fish and swims above scores of red and purple urchins on a rock. Several smaller fish dart by on the periphery with fronds of giant kelp in the midground.
    New research on sea urchins challenges long-held assumptions about marine reserves

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  • Polycystic kidney disease illustration
    Hope on the Horizon
    Researchers in the Weimbs Lab find a method to potentially stop and reverse polycystic kidney disease

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