University of California Santa Barbara

Cutting both heating and cooling costs with an innovative passive thermoregulating roof tile
Photo Credit Hopp et al. Scenarios involving different moral categories elicited different patterns of neural activity.
Do distinct moral categories have an underlying neurologic basis?
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New antibiotic cures superbugs without bacterial resistance
Scalable thin film transistor-based biosensors. Credit: Ben Woodington
Miniaturised biosensors allow unprecedented real-time data for tracking patients’ health
Exhaust from coal-fired power plants, at left, contains large quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (purple tripartite molecules). Aluminum formate, a metal-organic framework whose structure is highlighted at right, can selectively capture carbon dioxide from dried flue gas conditions, potentially at a fraction of the cost of using other carbon filtration materials. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST
A new simple very low cost material to scrub CO2 for powerplant smokestacks
Hard optimization problems can be expressed as interacting networks of probabilistic bits. Efficient solution of these problems require making them less dense at the expense of more p-bits.
Just what is the potential of probabilistic computers?
Reversing insecticide resistance and help fight malaria with a new genetic strategy
Using lasers to rapidly and temporarily change the properties of materials without producing heat
A new method for defending the Earth against cosmic impacts?
New study of low ocean oxygen levels indicates potentially devastating impacts for fisheries and ecosystems
Is it possible to estimate the number of seated people in an area from outside using only WiFi?
Using satellite images to improve lives via a new machine learning breakthrough
Researchers have developed a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot for both here and way out there
Groundbreaking model uses remote sensing data, machine learning, and human rights expertise to shed light on slavery at sea
Could accessible and affordable healthcare be a key tool for addressing the climate crisis?