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Matt Perko
Researchers Mia Raimondi, left, Christopher Hayes and lead author Michael Costello have uncovered how pathogenic Bordetella bacteria adhere to mammalian airways despite their hosts' natural defenses

A new look at an old protein may yield therapy for contagious respiratory disease

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Two sets of connected spheres, one labeled T Center, the other CN Center
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Courtesy UCSB Engineering / ChatGPT
An AI-generated image depicts the advantage of the the carbon- and nitrogen-stable, telecom-ready CN center defect in silicon (right) over the "hydrogen fragile" T Center.

A robust new telecom qubit in silicon
Five adults in business attire standing shoulder to shoulder in a natural setting
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Courtesy UCSB Engineering
Left to right: Samuel Lobo, Devon Callan, Erica Keane Rivera, Ventura Rivera, Austin Dubose

UCSB startup builds software to speed drug discovery
A fisherman catches fish in front of an earthen embankment with a dozen yellow construction cranes peaking up behind it, with lush forested hills in the background.
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A fisherman (lower left) catches fish in front of the construction site of Luang Prabang Dam along the Mekong River. Luang Prabang, Laos was named a UNESCO World Heritage site nearly 30 years ago, but the dam project could deprive it of this title.

Rethinking rivers: Their greatest services may be the ones we overlook
Roark Chao in lab
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Matt Perko
Doctoral student Roark Chao researches microLEDs at UC Santa Barbara

Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and a UCSB doctoral student is helping make it happen
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Matt Perko
A researcher works in a campus lab devoted to AI.

UCSB computer science department to offer undergraduate major in AI
A rainbow of prescriptions drugs with white bottles on a black countertop.
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Debreny via iStock
Peptides have found use in over 80 drugs worldwide since insulin was first synthesized in the 1920s.

Scientists unlock a massive new ‘color palette’ for biomedical research by synthesizing non-natural amino acids
a sandy beach in the Bahamas
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Divina Cox

Citizen science app tracks coastal erosion in the Bahamas
A mosquito lands on a blue fabric.
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Photo by Егор Камелев on Unsplash
Finding the right taste to send mosquitoes packing could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Mosquito taste receptor could lead to new insect repellents
A coronal mass ejection shoots off from the sun.
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NASA

UCSB scientists bottle the sun with liquid battery
A wave crashes upon campus point with Santa Cruz Island in the distance.
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Matt Perko
Ocean policy issues are front and center on UC Santa Barbara’s coastal campus.

Science policy education should start on campus
Woman wearing a lab coat, glasses and blue gloves drips liquid into a test tube
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Matt Perko

UCSB among the world’s most influential research universities for science impact
Earth from space, centered on North America
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NASA

Moving beyond money to measure the true value of Earth science information
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