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Newton's cradle

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators awards to UCSB experimentalists opens the door to new insights and innovations

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Yuehao Gao
A visitor experiences virtual reality at a Media Arts & Technology exhibition.

MAT end of year show fuses art and engineering
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Cargo vessel congestion at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex during the COVID pandemic

A cheap and easy potential solution for lowering carbon emissions in maritime shipping
Daniel Naylor
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UCSB math graduate charts his next move
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Geospatial information about how women use the ocean is an important part of marine spatial planning, but tends to be hidden in the data

Gender-sensitive data brings more depth to marine spatial planning
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Andrea S. Carlini recognized for her work on bio-compatible soft materials
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Physicist and computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Murphy Niu receives NSF CAREER award for quantum computing innovation
A giant sea bass cruises the deep reef.
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Merry Passage
Southern California’s population of giant sea bass is recovering from overfishing, but progress is slow.

Community science helps reveal population growth among SoCal’s endangered giant sea bass
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Energy and memory: A new neural network paradigm
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Matt Perko
“You can think of this as the next step in personal computing,” said UCSB professor Jennifer Jacobs, whose research explores more intuitive, responsive digital fabrication systems.

Making automation more human through innovative fabrication tools
concept illustration of amino acid chains that form proteins
De novo protein design involves sequencing amino acids to produce proteins with the desired structures and functions

Enzymes from scratch
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Hormone cycles shape the structure and function of key memory regions in the brain
concept illustration of engtangled photons

Quantum entangled photons on demand
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