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Your scam stories
Additional coverage by Marketplace of telemarketing scams that target immigrants included insights from Assistant Professor of Sociology Juan Manuel Pedroza.
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Carrots farms v valley: the battle over a water-depleted California region
Professor Emeritus of Agroecology Stephen Gliessman spoke with The Guardian about the risks of overdrawing water in the aquifers of California's Central Valley.
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Food for thought: how TV cooking shows influence the way we eat
Associate Professor of Sociology Alison Alkon spoke to The Guardian about how cooking shows have the potential to help people expand their culinary horizons.
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Review | Five great sci-fi and fantasy novels to read now
The latest novel from micha cárdenas, the director of the Critical Realities Studio and assistant professor of art and design at UC Santa Cruz, was reviewed in the Washington Post. The reviewer notes that the novel, Atoms Never Touch, conjures an immersive dystopia, full of facial recognition, augmented-reality lenses and a brutal security state — while…
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Is de-extinction only a pipette dream? This startup has a big, expensive plan to find out.
Beth Shapiro, who co-directs the Paleogenomics Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz and has studied the flightless bird’s genome for almost two decades, advises Colossal’s avian genomics work.
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Can UM-led team create a ‘perfect’ reef? Why the U.S. military is banking on it
The nation’s military has been working on a new weapon: Creating a ‘perfect,’ self-healing coral reef that can withstand disease, warming temperatures and sea rise.The reef design is made up of three stacked layers. The bottom layer is a concrete chamber called the “sea hive” after its honeycomb shape. As waves hit the bottom row…
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Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a Trick from Solar Power
Researchers measure the water that flows off the hillside and into the basin. To calculate how much water seeps underground, they use stream and pressure gauges, as well as thermal probes inserted into the shallow soil at the bottom of the basin. “The infiltrating water carries heat,” says Andrew Fisher, a hydrogeologist at the University…
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None of Your Photos Are Real
The aesthetics of online socializing reaffirmed old racial imbalances around beauty but also opened up a space for women of color, especially, to have representational agency, says Derek Conrad Murray, a professor at UC Santa Cruz who specializes in the history of art and visual culture. “Self-representation and social media enabled many women of color…
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Researchers fortifying California salt marshes from effects of climate change
Between the land and the sea, salt marshes are the true guardians of our coastline. Evolutionary biologist Kerstin Wasson runs the Wasson Research Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is a member of the team behind the project. "What we've done here at Hester Marsh is build tomorrow's marsh," Wasson said. Additional coverage in KION.
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Factory fishing in Antarctica for krill targets the cornerstone of a fragile ecosystem
While the end of commercial whaling has allowed populations to rebound, a new study by the University of California, Santa Cruz found that pregnancy rates among humpback whales in Antarctica have been falling sharply — possibly due to a lack of krill, their main prey. Chinstrap penguins and fur seals face similar stresses. “The marine…