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  • UCSC astronomer John Faulkner to address U.K. astronomy meeting

    The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has invited John Faulkner, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to give the Roger Tayler Memorial Lecture at the National Astronomy Meeting next month in Dublin. Faulkner’s talk, which will take place on April 10, will be the last in a series of five…

  • New video tackles men, women, and romantic love

    Despite what the self-help books say about men and women being from different planets, there are very earthly factors that contribute to the problems men and women encounter in their shared quest for satisfying love relationships. The new video Gender and Relationships: Male-Female Differences in Love and Marriage illuminates the roots of “gendered” patterns of…

  • It’s not just about gender, sociologist says of adolescent girls

    In her new book, Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity, Julie Bettie calls for an overt discussion of social class–along with race and gender–as the key to ending educational inequality. “Young women are negotiating the multiple axes of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as they come of age, but that complexity often gets overlooked…

  • New studies reveal connections between oceanographic processes and rockfish populations

    More than 60 species of rockfish live along the U.S. West Coast, including about 10 commercially important species (often sold as red snapper) that inhabit the shallow rocky reefs and kelp beds of the California coast. Like most marine fish, rockfish produce larval young that spend the first few months of their lives drifting about…

  • Anthropologist pens an artful natural history of the Amazon

    With his new book In Amazonia: A Natural History, anthropologist Hugh Raffles has set a new standard for the genre of natural history, artfully bringing to life the people, history, and science of this highly romanticized region. In engaging prose, Raffles traces the mystique of the Amazon back to 16th-century explorers and describes how it…

  • UC Santa Cruz psychology professor seeks volunteers

    Want to do a good deed and contribute to scientific understanding, too? Researchers in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, need volunteers for a study about thinking and decision making. Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 35 or between the ages of 65 and 80. The study takes…

  • Against the odds, local forces unite to preserve open space in California

    Since the 1920s, residents of the Golden State have organized locally to preserve more than 1 million acres of open space–an amount that rivals the 1.3 million acquired during the same period by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Total exceeds 1 million acres, rivaling that acquired by state parks Unlike the ubiquitous forces…

  • Astronomers detect a faint debris trail in the Andromeda galaxy, more evidence of galactic cannibalism

    The discovery of a faint trail of stars in the nearby Andromeda galaxy offers new evidence that large spiral galaxies have grown by gobbling up smaller satellite galaxies. The new findings are being presented on Monday, January 6, by astronomers Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and David Reitzel of UCLA…

  • Mercury in California rainwater traced to industrial emissions in Asia

    Industrial emissions in Asia are a major source of mercury in rainwater that falls along the California coast, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The researchers reported their findings in a paper published online today by the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres. (The paper will appear…

  • Researchers observe electronic dynamics of strongly interacting gold nanoparticles using ultrafast laser spectroscopy

    Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have reported the first observations of ultrafast electronic dynamics in a system of strongly interacting gold nanoparticles. The observations are an important advance in nanoparticle research, because the development of practical devices using metal nanoparticles depends on understanding how they interact. Jin Zhang, an associate professor of…

  • Mouse genome sequence published with first comparative analysis of mouse and human genomes

    Researchers in the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, made significant contributions to the analysis of the mouse genome sequence announced this week by the international Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium. The consortium published a high-quality draft sequence of the mouse genome–the genetic blueprint of a mouse–together with…

  • New book by UC Santa Cruz professor attacks character issue

    Does the issue of character matter? Should it influence which political candidate we vote for, whom we hire, or what we teach our children in school? A new book by John M. Doris, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, argues that people often profoundly overestimate the behavioral impact of character…

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