New research horizons
Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members -- cryptographer Stefano Tessaro and condensed matter physicist Andrea Young -- have been selected to receive research fellowships from...
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Average distance to a forest increased by almost 14% in the continental US in a decade
Credit: Yang S, Mountrakis G (2017) During the 1990s, in the continental US key connecting forest patches have been lost resulting in an increase of...
How do polar bears respond to climate change, subsistence hunting?
Credit: Kristin Laidre/University of Washington UW's Kristin Laidre awarded Pew marine fellowship to study effects of climate change, subsistence hunting on polar bears Polar bears...
Incarceration linked to excess burden of cancer, new study finds
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2017 -- People who spend time in jails and prisons are more likely to develop certain...
Serendipity uncovers borophene’s potential
Credit: Mark C. Hersam Almost one year ago, borophene didn't even exist. Now, just months after a Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory team discovered...
Cameras can steal data from computer hard drive LED lights — Ben-Gurion U. study
BEER-SHEVA, Israel...Feb. 22, 2017 - Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have demonstrated that data can be stolen...
Tiny fibers open new windows into the brain
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For the first time ever, a single flexible fiber no bigger than a human hair has successfully delivered a combination of optical,...
Nature study suggests new therapy for Gaucher disease
CINCINNATI - Scientists propose in Nature blocking a molecule that drives inflammation and organ damage in Gaucher and maybe other lysosomal storage diseases as a...
Measuring patients’ muscles to predict chemotherapy side effects
Chemotherapy has long been standard treatment for many cancers, but its clinical benefits can also come with well-documented side effects. Doctors say the challenge is...
Researchers aim to disrupt egg production in dengue- and Zika-spreading mosquito
Credit: USDA RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The mosquito Aedes aegypti, which can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever virus, requires a blood meal...
NASA spies Tropical Cyclone 08P’s formation
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA's Aqua satellite spotted Tropical Cyclone 08P as it was developing in the South Pacific Ocean. Tropical...
Scientists decipher the nanoscale architecture of a beetle’s shell
Beetles wear a body armor that should weigh them down -- think medieval knights and turtles. In fact, those hard shells protecting delicate wings are...
‘Quartz’ crystals at the Earth’s core power its magnetic field
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded...
Ultracool dwarf and the seven planets
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers using the TRAPPIST-South telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal and the NASA Spitzer Space...
CAR T cells more powerful when built with CRISPR, MSK researchers find
Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have harnessed the power of CRISPR/Cas9 to create more-potent chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that enhance...
