Science
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Kelp restoration film reveals extent of crisis, hope for recovery
UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience evolutionary biologist Malin Pinsky’s research is driven by the understanding of the severity of these kelp die-offs.
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New Research Shows How AI Could Transform Math, Physics, Cancer Research and More
“I had not seen anything that impressive [in math] from an LLM before,” says Ryan Foley, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. “I suspect LLMs are going to upend how theories are created, vetted and improved.”
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Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe
This conclusion struck physicists as paradoxical, given that we too could conceivably live in a closed universe. And we clearly see far more than a single state around us. “On my desk there are an infinite number of states,” said Edgar Shaghoulian, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Does Information Ever Really Disappear? Physics Has an Answer
“Once the black hole is completely evaporated, all that’s left is the Hawking radiation, so it has to be there,” says University of California, Santa Cruz, physicist Edgar Shaghoulian. Also in Yahoo News.
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Diamond-based detectors may help unlock safer fusion reactors
At UC Santa Cruz, physicists have secured $555,000 to develop a next-generation monitoring system for future fusion plants. Their approach relies on an unlikely hero, artificial diamonds engineered to detect the nuclear “burn” products released during fusion reactions.
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An Ocean View, Pollution Included: Scientists at Rio Theatre Warn of Microplastics
UCSC adjunct and environmental toxicologist Dr. Myra Finkelstein spoke of her research on Midway Atoll in the South Pacific, which revealed dangerous amounts of plastic in the eggs and digestive tracts of seabirds such as albatross. “There is also a lot of evidence that humans are also ingesting microplastics,” she said.
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If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know
Seismologist Thorne Lay of the University of California, Santa Cruz has been involved with nuclear monitoring research for decades. Science News spoke with Lay to clarify what we know about nuclear testing around the globe.
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‘I never want to leave’: What it’s like to live on this S.F. island that’s full of young people
“Treasure Island is an example of the really critical tradeoffs that the housing shortage has forced cities like San Francisco to reckon with,” said Patrick Barnard, research director at UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience.
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Emergency funds for Second Harvest Food Bank, how the shutdown is impacting UCSC and CSUMB
UC Santa Cruz Vice Chancellor for Research John MacMillan spoke with KAZU about how the current federal government shutdown is affecting campus research activities.
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UCSC astronomy Ph.D. survived war and helped build Kosovo’s first observatory. Now she’s bringing the cosmos to Bay Area classrooms
After surviving the Kosovo War and witnessing her first solar eclipse as a child, UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. student Pranvera Hyseni turned a moment of wonder into a lifelong mission to bring astronomy education to her homeland.
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Santa Cruz’s king tides: How experts and residents are taking part in research
At UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, researchers are also seizing the moment. Computer scientist Alex Pang and graduate student Mona Zhao are using webcams, machine learning and 3D modeling to track how beaches shift from day to day.
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Scientists deploy cutting-edge tech to combat looming threat to US coastline: ‘Fundamental to motivating action’
Researchers from UC Santa Cruz have teamed up with NVIDIA to help officials better understand the risks of coastal erosion and learn how to mitigate damage.