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UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Omar Saleh
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Differences in gene expression, not just their presence, seems to drive the remarkable specialization found in the human brain.
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Brooklyn Stone
Noel the northwestern salamander hitched a ride on a Christmas tree from the Pacific Northwest to sunny Santa Barbara.
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Using virtual reality, an AI module for future vision prostheses, designed by Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, creates practical and useful artificial vision.
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Textile waste has become a major source of plastic pollution, with lower-income countries shouldering the brunt of the problem.
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Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser
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Coconut palms account for more than one third of forested areas on Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia, which falls far short of the region’s most heavily impacted atolls.
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The internal structure of a jet engine
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