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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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A super cargo ship is tended to by cranes and trucks in a commercial terminal. Lights from the port brighten the dimming sky, with mountains and low clouds in the distance.
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Curtailing overconsumption may be the easiest target for reducing the societal and environmental impacts of climate change.

UCSB professor tapped to co-author the seventh IPCC assessment report on climate change mitigation
molecules in blue
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Anusorn Nakdee/iStock

Designing better catalysts for cleaner, more efficient chemistry
Sunlight streams down through the kelp forest canopy.
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UC Santa Barbara
Declines in water clarity are a pressing concern for coastal ecosystems.

Scientists create a system for tracking underwater blackouts
female student reads on bench outside
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Matt Perko

Even brief lapses in attention can weaken memory
kids look at machine with instructor
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Courtesy
Innovation Workshop Wizard Elina “Susy” Lopez Garza teaches students how to use a robotic sticker cutter.

UCSB program broadens STEM opportunity for underserved youth
A pregnant woman is silhouetted by diffuse, warm sunlight.
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Kieferpix via iStock
The health of a woman and her future child may be at risk before she even knows she’s pregnant.

Hot, humid conditions during pregnancy undermine child health much more than heat alone
A pair of comets partially melt as they collide in an inset image, lower right, with the system’s young star and accretion disk in the background.
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Thomas Müller (MPIA/HdA)
Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.

Astronomers discover huge dust clouds from violent collisions around nearby star
two older white people on couch with virtual reality headsets
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Rendever.com

NIH backs UCSB virtual reality project to help older adults build real social connections
A pair of divers use bongo nets to collect marine snow in dark, blue water.
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J. Morin/ NOAA
Much of the organic carbon sinking into the deep ocean is carried by tiny organic particles known as marine snow.

A stormy ocean voyage yields insights on the global carbon cycle
concept illustration of AI and brain

AI helps explain how covert attention works and uncovers new neuron types
graduate student Kylie Falcione looks at brain scans
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Matt Perko
Kylie Falcione

Brain science, social media and a modern moral panic
composite image of pictures of Nobel prize-winning physicists
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Matt Perko, with material from © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin

UCSB physicists accept Nobel Prizes in Sweden
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