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Physicist and computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Murphy Niu receives NSF CAREER award for quantum computing innovation

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Neuroscientist Bianca Acevedo examines the impact and challenges of sensory processing sensitivity
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Materials scientist Chris Van de Walle receives top computational physics award from the American Physical Society
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Kaustav Banerjee named a JSAP Fellow International
A close-up view of fluorescent coral.
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Coral underpin ecosystems as vibrant as they are. But these iconic animals face many challenges in the 21st century.

UC Santa Barbara leads $1.3-million research project on coral regeneration
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Ferrets are among the vertebrates that get the most tumors, while black footed penguins get the fewest

Researchers complete the largest compilation of cancer prevalence across vertebrates
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Researchers model airbursts, a common yet little-understood cosmic impact process
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UCSB, Community Environmental Council to hold Living with Fire Summit
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Elena Zhukova
Exercising with battle ropes is a popular high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout

Bursts of exercise boost cognitive function, UCSB neuroscientists find
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Matt Perko
The scanning ultrafast electron microscope in the Bolin Liao lab

Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two semiconductor materials
Denise Montell
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Denise Montell

Professor Denise Montell wins second NIH Pioneer Award, receiving $5.5 million for immune therapy research
An electron-microscopy image of the fruit fly's anterior visual pathway
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Dustin Garner, Emil Kind
An electron-microscopy image of the fruit fly's anterior visual pathway — all neurons involved in processing visual information and conveying it to the navigation center in the fly brain. Compass neurons are in the circular area at the center

Researchers' reconstruction of fruit fly’s anterior visual pathway will lead to insights into animal navigation

Charting the course of rivers
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