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The chemical element nickel denoted the number 28 from the periodic table
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Adding nickel atoms to improve a silver catalyst

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Yang Yang’s wizardry with enzymes earns him early career recognition
A human brain against a background of double helices.
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Matt Perko
Differences in gene expression, not just their presence, seems to drive the remarkable specialization found in the human brain.

It’s all about expression
A dark salamander sits on a gloved hand.
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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.

From forest to living room: How Christmas trees can transport wildlife across states
A hand holding up a pair of high-tech glasses on a black background
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Matt Perko
Using virtual reality, an AI module for future vision prostheses, designed by Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, creates practical and useful artificial vision.

Seeing the future: Michael Beyeler’s work in neurotechnology earns him top faculty award
Textile waste fills a dump in Bangladesh.
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Textile waste has become a major source of plastic pollution, with lower-income countries shouldering the brunt of the problem.

Apparel industry leaks millions of tons of plastic into environment each year
scientist holds a chip-scale ring resonator and a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode
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Sonia Fernandez
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

Bringing the power of tabletop precision lasers for quantum science to the chip scale
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Six UCSB researchers named among world’s most influential scientists
signpost with three potential directions

Resolving ambiguity
Coconut palms stretch into the distance framed by tropical blue waters.
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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.

After decades of plantation agriculture, coconut palms dominate over half of Pacific atoll forests
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The internal structure of a jet engine

Materials scientist Daniel Oropeza receives prestigious award to advance high-temperature 3D ceramics
blue whale tail
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Researchers paint a global picture of whale-ship collision risk
hand holding a cutout of the world map as a plate

Revealing the hidden costs of what we eat
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