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Left to right: Samuel Lobo, Devon Callan, Erica Keane Rivera, Ventura Rivera, Austin Dubose

UCSB startup builds software to speed drug discovery

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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
A man working at a computer
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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
Oil droplets suspended in water.
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Carther via iStock
Small, naturally occurring droplets could have accelerated the development of early life.

Electrifying biology in a bubble
scientist at work
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Matt Perko
A researcher in the lab of Stephen Wilson, whose group studies how magnetic interactions can produce unusual states of matter relevant to quantum research.

Using magnetic frustration to probe new quantum possibilities
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