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A sweaty child on a playground.
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Children are more sensitive to heat than adults, and chronic overheating can affect their experience and engagement at school.

Heat exposure in California schools prompts multi-campus research project

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Cecilia Conaco and Kenneth Kosik

Clues to Nervous System Evolution Found in Nerve-less Sponge
students in class

UC Santa Barbara Archaeology Class Unearths the Original Santa Barbara

UCSB Scientists Synthesize First Genetically Evolved Semiconductor Material

Study by UC Santa Barbara Psychologists Reveals How Brain Performs ‘Motor Chunking' Tasks

Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact

Protein Knots Gain New Evolutionary Significance

UC Santa Barbara Researchers Develop Synthetic Platelets
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
Jatila van der Veen

UCSB Physicist Uses Art to Make Physics More Accessible to Students

Clinical Trials for Alzheimer's Disease Preventative Drug to Begin Early 2013

Three-Telescope Interferometry Allows Astrophysicists to Observe How Black Holes are Fueled
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