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a view of the Black Sea

UCSB-led international team evaluates anoxic marine basins as potential sites for carbon sequestration

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A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
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Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO
A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

UCSB researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics
researchers at an optical table
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Matt Perko

UCSB’s Eddleman Quantum Institute announces new round of funding to accelerate quantum research
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Professional honors for two UC Santa Barbara geographers
grapes, asian pear, apple, persimmon, sweet potato and chestnuts

How farming perennial crops can help us in times of climate change, food insecurity and social division
Tiffany Chung in front of her map artwork at the UCSB AD&A museum
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Matt Perko
Tiffany Chung with her hand-embroidered maps in “Tiffany Chung: indelible traces” at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Tiffany Chung’s exhibition at the AD&A Museum maps history within deep geological time
An anemometer against clouds and sky.
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Pixfly via iStock
3D printed instrumentation means that national meteorological services in Africa can take full ownership of their networks, building, repairing and sustaining them independently.

3D-printed weather station initiative enhances local monitoring in Southern Africa
a patient intake form, a stethoscope and a red ribbon that symbolizes HIV

HIV patients are especially vulnerable to extreme weather events
four dancers with flowy yellow skirts
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Stephen Sherrill
"We Were Light" by Annalise Evans, UCSB Dance Company

UCSB Dance Company to debut ‘Convergence’ before European tour
black and white photo with many people marching in one direction taken from up above
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iStock / EyeEm Mobile GmbH
How people judge collective action, such as this peaceful march, depends on their allegiances, values and beliefs, according to research at UCSB

Social science research on collective action wins National Science Foundation grant
three scientists in lab coats in a laboratory
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Matt Perko
Researchers Mia Raimondi, left, Christopher Hayes and lead author Michael Costello have uncovered how pathogenic Bordetella bacteria adhere to mammalian airways despite their hosts' natural defenses

A new look at an old protein may yield therapy for contagious respiratory disease
Five adults in business attire standing shoulder to shoulder in a natural setting
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Courtesy UCSB Engineering
Left to right: Samuel Lobo, Devon Callan, Erica Keane Rivera, Ventura Rivera, Austin Dubose

UCSB startup builds software to speed drug discovery
A fisherman catches fish in front of an earthen embankment with a dozen yellow construction cranes peaking up behind it, with lush forested hills in the background.
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A fisherman (lower left) catches fish in front of the construction site of Luang Prabang Dam along the Mekong River. Luang Prabang, Laos was named a UNESCO World Heritage site nearly 30 years ago, but the dam project could deprive it of this title.

Rethinking rivers: Their greatest services may be the ones we overlook
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