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UCSB ExFAB staff and senior participants, from left, Oliver Vining, Elaine Kirschke, Jean-Marie Volland, Nathalie Elisabeth, Sherylle Mills Englander, Max Wilson, Michelle O'Malley, Joel Rothman, Niels Volkmann and Carolyn Mills.
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It’s not quite heat vision, but mosquitoes do use thermal infrared to find human hosts.
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Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller
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Rana Amini/Campàs Lab
Microscopy image of a developing zebrafish retina, with cell nuclei (blue) and membranes (yellow) shown
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Priming macrophage immune cells could supercharge certain cancer therapies.
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Scientists and engineers would love if separating rare earth elements were as easy as picking one out of a stack of blocks.
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Lilli Walker
Kerem Çamsari (left) and third-year Ph.D. student Shaila Niazi, who used p-bits to create images that were not part of a machine-learning training data set.
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Neil Ferdinand Nathan
Apex predators like this shortfin make have an outsized influence on their ecosystems. Unfortunately, they’re also the hardest hit by fishing.