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photo of the the LZ experiment's outer detector
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Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment
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woman in suit
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Jeff Liang
UCSB's Grace Han’s research centers on solar fuels that capture sunlight and convert it into usable heat.
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water color painting of small boats arriving to shore
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Courtesy
Illustration by Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil for Mona Damluji's “I Want You to Know."
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framed art on gallery wall
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, from Sept. 13–Dec. 7, 2025.
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cell images
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Dorit Hanein
Dorit Hanein’s team and collaborators captured Rac1, a tiny molecular switch, rapidly building and breaking cellular scaffolds, revealing how cells swiftly reshape their skeletons to move and adapt.
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group of people in whimsical costumes on beach at sunset
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Jeff Liang
UCSB's Naked Shakes
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A young man places a small orange box of electronics near a bush on the seashore with
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Elena Zhukova
There’s a cacophony of acoustic signals below the range of human hearing, many quite intense, that you can pick up with the right “ears.”
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student researcher peering into microscope
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Matt Perko
A cancer researcher at UCSB investigates the potential for macrophages to selectively 'eat' solid tumor cells