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A new study in Science maps out a comprehensive plan to eliminate plastic pollution by 2050

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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
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Core textbook on computer music distills ‘vast information space’ in a definitive tutorial
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Chemistry professor Yang Yang receives a 2023 Packard Fellowship
A pyramid of concept cards underpins a basilica on a laptop screen. Behind the computer is a more abstract pyramid of concepts floating above the desk.
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An illustration by Midjourney with the prompt: “A computer with clouds of equations and symbols.”
What an artificial intelligence displays on the screen reflects its internal representation of the world, which may be quite different than our own.

The mind of the machine
students at desks with laptops
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Elena Zhukova

Richert Wang receives NSF grant to help bring role models from marginalized communities to computer science students
illustration of blue and yellow circuitry

UCSB joins a federally sponsored regional innovation hub to help bolster microelectronics technology
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Everyone will have their own AI soon
concept of a quantum magnetometer
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Brian Long
A quantum magnetometer on a chip

UC Santa Barbara quantum scientists to conduct NSF-funded research to pursue quantum-scale sensor technologies
concept of attaching radical molecule to aromatic compound
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A ‘toolbox of biocatalysts’ improves control over free radicals
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Amelie Funk

Climate science is catching up to climate change with predictions that could improve proactive response
concept of human and machine intelligence working together

Researchers at the 2023 Mellichamp Mind & Machine Intelligence Summit contemplate and discuss the state of artificial intelligence
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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