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A fruit fly larva with imagined electric field lines in the background.
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Fruit fly larvae will reorient themselves toward the negative pole of an electric field.

Scientists discover that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields

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Protein Knots Gain New Evolutionary Significance
Professors Joel Rothman (left) and Boris Shraiman

UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute Receives Two Grants to Explore Interface of Physics and Biology

Plants Previously Thought to be ‘Stable' Found to be Responding to Climate Change

SeaSketch, the Next Generation of UCSB's MarineMap Program, Will Aid Marine Spatial Planning Around the World

UCSB Researchers Find that Less is More, for Female Cowbirds

New iPhone App Bridges Science, Technology, Education, and a Day at the Beach

Children's Book by UCSB Greenhouse Manager Studies Monarch Butterflies

UCSB Teams With Greenpeace and NOAA to Study World's Largest Undersea Canyons

UC Santa Barbara Researchers Discover Genetic Link Between Visual Pathways of Hydras and Humans

UCSB Study is First to Measure Value of Marine Spatial Planning

Study by UC Santa Barbara Researchers Suggests That Bacteria Communicate by Sense of Touch

UCSB Biologist Receives $453,000 NSF Grant for Research on Diatoms
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