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A 3D render of team communication and abstract social network connection symbols with a hand in the background.
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Advanced mortality modeling earns UCSB team international actuarial prize

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A barracuda school off Bikar Atoll, Marshall Islands.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Monitoring fishing activity far from shore presents a challenge for resource management and marine conservation.

Satellites show that strictly protected marine areas exclude industrial fishing
Five Black men in different uniforms and non uniformed dress are in a group talking
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UN Photos
UN peacekeepers and members of the Malian military discuss outbreaks of violence with village residents in Mopti, Mali.

Trust in peacekeepers linked to reduced violence
raspberry pis
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Photo illustration by Matt Perko

World’s biggest Raspberry Pi cluster is now at UCSB
students working out at the Recreation Center
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Elena Zhukova
Exercising with battle ropes is a popular high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout

Bursts of exercise boost cognitive function, UCSB neuroscientists find
Beijing’s Forbidden City lies shrouded in industrial smog.
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Holger Kleine via iStock
China’s infamous air pollution affects its citizens’ minds as well as their bodies.

Clearing the air reduces suicide rates

Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable
Maps and cityscapes on a grid.
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Alice Kitterman/U.S. National Science Foundation

Mapping science: How GIS transformed our view of the world
oil and natural gas infrastructure in the Permian Basin
Oil and gas extraction infrastructure in the Permian Basin

MethaneMapper is poised to solve the problem of underreported methane emissions
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