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Brian Long
Co-PI Andrew Jayich will use the new technology to create ion traps like the one shown here, in which colors indicate independent electrodes to control trapped ions.
Galan Moody leads successful effort to secure $1.3 million for advanced 3D printing
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NASA
The El Niño Southern Oscillation drives major weather patterns across the globe. Disrupting it could have intense and far-reaching ramifications.
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Dorit Hanein
Dorit Hanein’s team and collaborators captured Rac1, a tiny molecular switch, rapidly building and breaking cellular scaffolds, revealing how cells swiftly reshape their skeletons to move and adapt.
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Eutrophication — caused by excessive nutrients, such as fertilizer runoff — causes a bloom of algae that depletes the water of oxygen and causes 'dead zones' that kill fish and other marine organisms
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Elena Zhukova
There’s a cacophony of acoustic signals below the range of human hearing, many quite intense, that you can pick up with the right “ears.”
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Matt Perko
A cancer researcher at UCSB investigates the potential for macrophages to selectively 'eat' solid tumor cells
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Matt Perko