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The internal structure of a jet engine

Materials scientist Daniel Oropeza receives prestigious award to advance high-temperature 3D ceramics

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A family, made up of a couple and their three children, in the Amazon stands together smiling.
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Michael Gurven
The Tsimane are an indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon

Researchers uncover natural selection for traits associated with immunity and metabolism in Tsimane and Moseten genomes
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Researchers uncover physical limitation in haptic holography
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Professor Tim Sherwood named an Association of Computing Machinery Fellow
Ainissa Ramirez stands onstage wearing a dark suit
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Materials scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez to present on little-known inventors
Gary Horowitz wears glasses and a blue shirt in a dark room
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Matt Perko
Gary Horowitz

Physicist Gary Horowitz receives 2023 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society
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Diets rich in food from the ocean and freshwater sources can help address both nutritional and environmental challenges
A computer rendering of bacteria and a superbug
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Ryan Allen and Peter Allen, Second Bay Studios
A new antibiotic cured mice infected with bacteria deemed nearly “untreatable” in humans — and resistance to the drug was virtually undetectable.

New antibiotic cures superbugs without bacterial resistance
An aerial view of a forest
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Nathan Stephenson, USGS
Variation within a given species enables some individuals to survive harsher drought conditions than others.

UC Santa Barbara ecologist receives award for research on the interplay between plant physiology and ecosystem dynamics
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Two assistant professors in Department of Physics receive Sloan Research Fellowships
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New electrical method triggers and analyzes dynamics of brain protein that underlie many neurodegenerative diseases
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Due to their feed, chicken and farmed salmon have remarkably similar environmental footprints
Flag rockfish and three swordspine rockfish swim among a basket star and numerous brittle stars on the side of one of the asphalt volcanoes
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Love Et Al.
Flag rockfish and three swordspine rockfish swim among a basket star and numerous brittle stars on the side of one of the asphalt volcanoes.

Researchers document the animal communities of a rare habitat
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