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Gayle Laird ©2021 California Academy of Sciences
Museum collections hold a wealth of data just waiting to be brought into the digital age.

The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century

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Shuji Nakamura sits on a chair next to lamps
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Matt Perko
Shuji Nakamura

Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura to receive honorary doctorate from University of Oxford
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Stephen Andrews, Unsplash

New study explores links between early-life gut microbiome and neurodevelopment
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National Cancer Institute
Acute Myelocytic Leukaemia

UCSB researchers develop a genetic sensor that could allow MRIs to image molecular-level changes
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Brian Long
A new project aims to understand theoretical aspects of quantum cryptography that could be used to protect computing in the future.

Could quantum computers protect privacy and security?
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Professor James Buckwalter honored for work on integrated circuits
Quantum computing concept illustration with a burst of blue light and string of 0s and 1s
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A robust new telecom qubit in silicon
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Left to right: Samuel Lobo, Devon Callan, Erica Keane Rivera, Ventura Rivera, Austin Dubose

UCSB startup builds software to speed drug discovery
Roark Chao in lab
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Matt Perko
Doctoral student Roark Chao researches microLEDs at UC Santa Barbara

Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and a UCSB doctoral student is helping make it happen
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Matt Perko
A researcher works in a campus lab devoted to AI.

UCSB computer science department to offer undergraduate major in AI
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Matt Perko

UCSB among the world’s most influential research universities for science impact
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Matt Perko
Chemistry Nobel Laureate and birthday celebrant Alan Heeger, center, flanked by his wife Ruth, right, and symposium organizer, CPOS Director Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

UCSB Chemistry Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger celebrates his 90th birthday with a symposium in his honor
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Jeff Liang

How books helped make computers mainstream
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