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A box of mounted and labeled iridescent bees.
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Gayle Laird ©2021 California Academy of Sciences
Museum collections hold a wealth of data just waiting to be brought into the digital age.

The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century

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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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halbergman via iStock
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
Shuji Nakamura sits on a chair next to lamps
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Matt Perko
Shuji Nakamura

Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura to receive honorary doctorate from University of Oxford
child at table with big colored crayons drawing on white paper
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Stephen Andrews, Unsplash

New study explores links between early-life gut microbiome and neurodevelopment
two researchers in blue, one holding a crab
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Matt Perko
Sophia Lecuona Manos, right, is one of several student researchers who discovered a new crab egg predator in the lab of UCSB parasitologist Armand Kuris, left, holding a yellow rock crab.

UCSB students discover new crab egg predator
A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
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Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO
A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

UCSB researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics
researchers at an optical table
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Matt Perko

UCSB’s Eddleman Quantum Institute announces new round of funding to accelerate quantum research
red and purple blotches like blurry watercolor strokes like floating in yellowish gell with pick splotches and red strokes
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National Cancer Institute
Acute Myelocytic Leukaemia

UCSB researchers develop a genetic sensor that could allow MRIs to image molecular-level changes
a patient intake form, a stethoscope and a red ribbon that symbolizes HIV

HIV patients are especially vulnerable to extreme weather events
professors Tobias Fischer and Ben Halpern discuss AI in their research during a library speaker series
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Johannes Steffens
Earth science professor Tobias Fischer (left) and Bren School professor Ben Halpern at UCSB Library's "AI in Action" spreaker series

UCSB Library launches ‘AI in Action’ speaker series
Two padlocks appear floating in space linked by a colorful infinity symbol
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Brian Long
A new project aims to understand theoretical aspects of quantum cryptography that could be used to protect computing in the future.

Could quantum computers protect privacy and security?
three scientists in lab coats in a laboratory
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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
Quantum computing concept illustration with a burst of blue light and string of 0s and 1s
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iStock / metamorworks

A robust new telecom qubit in silicon
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