(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — UC Santa Barbara scientists have made a discovery that has the potential for use in the early diagnosis and eventual treatment of plaque-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 diabetes. Their work …
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — Inspired by the popular confidence trick known as “shell game,” researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the ability to hide and shuffle “quantum-mechanical peas” — — microwave single photons — — un…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — Calling the results “extremely surprising,” researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Texas A&M University report that methane gas concentrations in the Gulf of Mexico have returned to near n…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has produced a groundbreaking study of how nanoparticles are able to biomagnify in a simple microbial food chain.
“This was a simple scientific curiosity…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — If current climate projections hold true, the forests of the Southwestern United States face a bleak future, with more severe — — and more frequent — — forest fires, higher tree death rates, more insect infest…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — Scientists can use cylinders as small as teapots to study the mechanisms involved in powerful hurricanes and other swirling natural phenomena.
The earth’s atmosphere and its molten outer core have one thing in …
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — In nature, it’s a dog-eat-dog world, even in the realm of bacteria. Competing bacteria use “toxic darts” to disable each other, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara biologists. Their research is published i…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — A potent drug derived from an evergreen tree may soon save the lives of some patients with the deadliest form of breast cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer will claim approximately 40,…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have succeeded in combining laser light with trapped electrons to detect and control the electrons’ fragile quantum state without erasing it. This is an important step toward using quantu…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a caste of genetically identical “warrior worms” — — members of a parasitic fluke species that invades the California horn snail. The findings are reported in the …
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — Two new groundbreaking scientific papers by researchers at UC Santa Barbara demonstrate the synthesis of nanosize biological particles with the potential to fight cancer and other illnesses. The studies introduce new…
One of the hottest nutritional supplements, currently manufactured by fermentation only in Japan, may eventually be synthesized in the United States thanks to research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Bruce H. Lipshutz, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSB, has developed a way to prepare coenzyme Q 10 (CoQ10 ) that he calls “short and sweet.” His method is patented and he is already talking to U.S. companies regarding potential commercialization. The process is economically competitive, using transition metal catalysts along the way, such as inexpensive nickel and cobalt complexes.