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![A river meanders through forests and fields in Columbia.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/Columbian-river-iStock.jpg?itok=Wh9xfAKO)
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EGT via iStock
Meandering rivers create a dynamic landscape, depositing sand bars and eroding steep banks as they undulate across their floodplains.
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![Composite headshots of M. Scott Shell and Beth Pruitt](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/AAAS2024-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=7hNU8KHR)
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Matt Perko; courtesy
M. Scott Shell, left, and Beth Pruitt, right
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![background screen at awards ceremony](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/william-wang-early-career-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=_iraJ2Fc)
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Courtesy photo
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![2024 Goldwater scholars](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/3up-portrait-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=k7nPYUgs)
Clockwise, from left: Matthew Unger, Riya Nilkrant, Xuanwei Liang, Isaac Hair, Anika Jena
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![aerial shot of North Atlantic right whale and calf](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/NorthAtlanticRightWhale_mother_calf_NOAA-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=gVWAZ_03)
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NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Conger and Elizabeth Josephson
North Atlantic right whale mother and calf as seen from a research drone called a hexacopter
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![a photo cradle attached to the rail of steps leading to beach](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/CoastSnap-header-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=POrTjSY2)
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Sonia Fernandez
The CoastSnap cradle on the steps to East Campus Beach
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![Waves crash on a revetment protecting houses along Broad Beach, Malibu.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/Broad-beach-Malibu-Lester-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=JAMrZuXM)
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Charles Lester
The ocean is advancing on California, and we need to determine how we will respond.
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![the cellular development of an embryonic tooth](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/tooth-epithelium-shroff-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=NiT27YkO)
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Neha Pincha Shroff and Pengfei Xu
Tooth epithelium (cell surface; yellow) and mesenchyme (cell surface; magenta). Proliferating cells (cyan) expand the tissue, generating a mechanical pressure at the tissue center that drives the formation of the main tooth signaling center or organizer, the enamel knot.
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![A large field of sunflowers near Sacramento.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-03/Sunflower-field-istock.jpg?itok=jUc5sI6o)
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Tfoxfoto via iStock
Tweaks to farming practices could preserve some of California’s declining water resources.
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![A tractor sprays a soybean field in spring.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-03/Pesticides-organic-iStock.jpg?itok=DjiG6lqG)
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Fotokostic vi iStock
Organic farming practices can increase pesticide use in neighboring, non-organic fields.