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Portrait of Tinish Bhattacharya
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Courtesy UCSB Engineering
Tinish Bhattacharya in his UC Santa Barbara lab.

Innovative hardware for rapidly solving optimization problems

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Three mountain yellow-legged frogs perched on a rock.
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Roland Knapp
The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog is recovering in Yosemite, a beacon of hope for amphibian conservation.
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battery with blue lighting bolt
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Aqueous Battery Consortium
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A line of clouts stretches from the tropical Pacific to western North America where it becomes a massive storm.
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Stuart Rankin via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
The Pineapple Express — an atmospheric river originating in the tropical Pacific — walloped western North America in February 2017. These systems are becoming more frequent at higher latitudes, leaving mid latitudes drier.
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green and purple objects
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Fangzhou ZhaoI, Van de Walle group
Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions.
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Yellow silhouettes of a large female and small male mosquito facing away from each other.
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Matt Perko
If a male mosquito can’t hear a female, it’s as though she doesn’t exist.
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A close-up view of fluorescent coral.
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Anemone via AdobeStock
Coral underpin ecosystems as vibrant as they are. But these iconic animals face many challenges in the 21st century.
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side by side photos of ferret and penguin
Ferrets are among the vertebrates that get the most tumors, while black footed penguins get the fewest