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Sunbeams filter down on a algae-covered rocks on a shallow seafloor.
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Johan Holmdahl via iStock
Oxygenated seafloors were likely the cradle of eukaryotic life.

Early complex life clung to oxygenated seafloors for hundreds of millions of years

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UC Santa Barbara’s Critical Issues in America series will examine the broad societal implications of aging and extension of longevity
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Matt Perko
Simply seeing a machine might not convey what it does.

Filming Proteins in Motion: Physics researchers inch closer to an ambitious goal
A family, made up of a couple and their three children, in the Amazon stands together smiling.
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Michael Gurven
The Tsimane are an indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon

Researchers uncover natural selection for traits associated with immunity and metabolism in Tsimane and Moseten genomes
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UC Santa Barbara researchers establish the Center for Longevity and Aging Studies
A computer rendering of bacteria and a superbug
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Ryan Allen and Peter Allen, Second Bay Studios
A new antibiotic cured mice infected with bacteria deemed nearly “untreatable” in humans — and resistance to the drug was virtually undetectable.

New antibiotic cures superbugs without bacterial resistance
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New electrical method triggers and analyzes dynamics of brain protein that underlie many neurodegenerative diseases
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Photo by Laura College, Unsplash

Researchers use machine learning to map where sharks face the most risk from longline fishing
A dusky-footed woodrat with baby in tow

Mapping Lyme Disease Out West
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An ‘Amazing’ Result

A Needle in a Coastal Haystack
Light shines through the leaves of a venus flytrap, revealing a captured insect

Mixing Up Metabolism
Young father trying to work on laptop as his children stand around him

The World According to GARP
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