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Professor Beth Pruitt

Professor Beth Pruitt

Jul 27, 2021
A Leap in Understanding Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

CRISPR gene editing technology and a long-term collaboration yield important new insights.

Artist's concept illustration depicting connected triangles in a kagome superconductor

Artist's concept illustration depicting connected triangles in a kagome superconductor.

Jul 27, 2021
A New Material Excites Researchers Around the World

Created at UCSB’s National Science Foundation Quantum Foundry, the material may be a unique kind of superconductor

Artist's concept illustration depicting soliton microcombs on silicon wafers. Illustration by Brian Long

Artist's concept illustration depicting soliton microcombs on silicon wafers. Illustration by Brian Long

Jul 01, 2021
First Commercially Scalable Integrated Laser and Microcomb on a Single Chip

The Bowers lab collaborates with EPFL to develop long-awaited breakthrough technology. 

Fungi in the guts of herbivores appear to be making the raw materials for antibiotics. Photograph by Lilli McKinney

Fungi in the guts of herbivores appear to be making the raw materials for antibiotics. Photograph by Lilli McKinney

Jun 16, 2021
Natural Products in Unexpected Places

Anaerobic fungi in the guts of herbivores produce the unique building blocks of antibiotics. 

Researchers have developed a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot. 

Jun 16, 2021
Subterranean Investigations

Researchers explore the shallow underground with a burrowing soft robot. 

Source: The Current

Jack Kilgore was part of a team that created EmissionControl 2, a granular synthesizer built for music competition.

Jun 15, 2021
Granular Accomplishments

Computer science student Jack Kilgore receives university award for undergraduate research on sound granulation. 

Tsunami wave experiments

Experiments in which a simulated landslide causes a "tsunami" in a channel filled with water.

Jun 08, 2021
The Science of Tsunamis

UCSB mechanical engineer Alban Sauret and colleagues develop a model to better understand the forces that generate the devastating waves.

Artist's concept illustration of a PIC

Artist's concept illustration of a PIC

Jun 02, 2021
The Power of Light-driven Computing

AIM Photonics will give already-exploding AI/ML a shot in the arm

Artist's concept illustration depicts a hydrogen vacancy (the black spot left of center) created by removing hydrogen from a methylammonium molecule, which traps carriers in the prototypical hybrid perovskite, mehtylammonium lead iodide CH3NH3Pbl3. Illustration by Xie Zhang

Artist's concept illustration depicts a hydrogen vacancy (the black spot left of center) created by removing hydrogen from a methylammonium molecule, which traps carriers in the prototypical hybrid perovskite, mehtylammonium lead iodide CH3NH3Pbl3. Illustration by Xie Zhang

Apr 28, 2021
Hydrogen in Hybrid Perovskites: Not as Innocent as it Looks

UC Santa Barbara researchers identify the defect that limits solar-cell performance.

Paulo Luzzatto-Fegiz

Paulo Luzzatto-Fegiz

Apr 27, 2021
Giving Fluid Drag the Slip

Developing the modeling and simulation tools for “slippier” surfaces.

Conceptual illustration of AlGaAs-on-insulator integrated quantum photonics devices that would enable chip-scale quantum computing with light (Graphic credit: Lillian McKinney).

Apr 13, 2021
Lighting the Way to Quantum Computers

Galan Moody received a prestigious NSF Early CAREER award to pursue quantum photonics research. 

Cells resemble foam in the earliest stage of development. 

Apr 12, 2021
Living Foams

UCSB researchers uncover how cells control the physical state of embryonic tissues. 

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