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A large and diverse group of adults in business attire stand shoulder to shoulder, smiling, in front of the White House
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Courtesy Dorit Hanein
Professor Dorit Hanein, center-left, newly elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, took part in the society's recent advocacy event in Washington D.C.

Professor Dorit Hanein recognized for pioneering high resolution cryo-imaging technologies

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a sandy beach in the Bahamas
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Divina Cox

Citizen science app tracks coastal erosion in the Bahamas
A mosquito lands on a blue fabric.
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Photo by Егор Камелев on Unsplash
Finding the right taste to send mosquitoes packing could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Mosquito taste receptor could lead to new insect repellents
A coronal mass ejection shoots off from the sun.
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NASA

UCSB scientists bottle the sun with liquid battery
A wave crashes upon campus point with Santa Cruz Island in the distance.
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Matt Perko
Ocean policy issues are front and center on UC Santa Barbara’s coastal campus.

Science policy education should start on campus
Woman wearing a lab coat, glasses and blue gloves drips liquid into a test tube
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Matt Perko

UCSB among the world’s most influential research universities for science impact
Earth from space, centered on North America
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NASA

Moving beyond money to measure the true value of Earth science information
Oil droplets suspended in water.
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Carther via iStock
Small, naturally occurring droplets could have accelerated the development of early life.

Electrifying biology in a bubble
scientist at work
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Matt Perko
A researcher in the lab of Stephen Wilson, whose group studies how magnetic interactions can produce unusual states of matter relevant to quantum research.

Using magnetic frustration to probe new quantum possibilities
A river meanders through green jungle on the edge of a large city.
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Thiago Japyassu via Unsplash
Yellow fever cases have begun to rise, spilling over the expanding border between the forest and urban areas.

Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest
A super cargo ship is tended to by cranes and trucks in a commercial terminal. Lights from the port brighten the dimming sky, with mountains and low clouds in the distance.
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SHansche via iStock
Curtailing overconsumption may be the easiest target for reducing the societal and environmental impacts of climate change.

UCSB professor tapped to co-author the seventh IPCC assessment report on climate change mitigation
molecules in blue
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Anusorn Nakdee/iStock

Designing better catalysts for cleaner, more efficient chemistry
Sunlight streams down through the kelp forest canopy.
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UC Santa Barbara
Declines in water clarity are a pressing concern for coastal ecosystems.

Scientists create a system for tracking underwater blackouts
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