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Newly discovered neural connections reveal that inhibitory neurons can also drive movement

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New model explains how single electrons cause damage inside silicon chips
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UC Santa Barbara physics researcher Skyler Palatnik

Designing lightweight optics to detect signs of life beyond our solar system
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Matt Perko
A researcher works in the lab of Ania Bleszynski Jayich

Using mechanical inputs to enhance quantum states in sensors
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Matt Perko
College of Creative Studies student Jake Tran

Watching art films can make you a more creative thinker
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Researchers demonstrate integrated stabilized laser chips performing clock and quantum operations on a room temperature trapped ion qubit
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Milk is often fortified with nutrients like vitamin D, vitamin A, iron and folic acid.

Food fortification prevents 7 billion nutrient gaps annually — but could triple its impact
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UCSB professor honored for research on how media shapes the human brain
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Museum collections hold a wealth of data just waiting to be brought into the digital age.

The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century
An aerial shot of a pumping plant for the California Aqueduct. The channel continues through pipes into the background toward parched hills.
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While reducing demand is important, most successful cases of groundwater recovery also involve moving huge amounts of water to meet demand.

Why some regions are winning the fight against groundwater depletion
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Shuji Nakamura

Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura to receive honorary doctorate from University of Oxford
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New study explores links between early-life gut microbiome and neurodevelopment
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Sophia Lecuona Manos, right, is one of several student researchers who discovered a new crab egg predator in the lab of UCSB parasitologist Armand Kuris, left, holding a yellow rock crab.

UCSB students discover new crab egg predator
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