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EarthSky
Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have a habitable ocean, or not?
Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, noted that our own moon is still seismically active, even though models suggested it shouldn’t be. He said: "The moon is one place where we know we have tidally driven quakes."
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Santa Cruz Local
Proposed fishing bans spark debate in Santa Cruz County
UC Santa Cruz ecologist Mark Carr completed some of the analyses of how Marine Protected Areas have impacted the Central Coast over the past decade. Carr said fishing bans might help kelp forests in Southern California, but won’t have the same impact in Monterey Bay.
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Scientific American
Planet-Eating Stars Are Surprisingly Common, New Study Suggests
The circumstantial evidence tentatively suggests that 8 percent (or more) of all stars likely to be planet-devourers, says Ricardo Yarza, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. But “estimating this rate is quite challenging.”
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Fast Company
California is wrestling with electricity prices. An income-based, fixed-charge rate structure might be the best solution
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yihsu Chen offers his perspective on how the California electricity market can be made as efficient and equitable as possible in the face of the rise of small-scale solar. Also published in The Conversation.
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Smithsonian
Why Did Seals and Sea Lions Never Commit to a Life Fully at Sea?
Finding and uncovering fossil pinnipeds in the first place is a challenging task. “Some creatures are more likely to enter the fossil record than others,” says University of California, Santa Cruz, paleontologist Ana Valenzuela Toro, “and pinnipeds have an unusual amphibious lifestyle that exposes them to very different processes depending on where they die.”
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KQED
Marin County Approves Contract to Prepare for Rising Seas and Extreme Storms
Creating a new department to tackle sea-level rise, however, will be complex, and Gary Griggs, a distinguished professor of sciences at UC Santa Cruz, said putting the onus on one agency to prepare for sea-level rise could be shortsighted. “I’m a little cautious of a whole new department,” he said, especially when staff in existing…
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Scientific American
Orion’s Twin Rogue Planets Inexplicably Blaze with Intense Radio Waves
“The Orion Nebula is just so far away that I would never have expected there to be detectable radio emission,” says Melodie Kao, a planetary radio expert at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not part of the team.
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PBS
Can science save the northern white rhino from extinction and even bring back the dodo?
"Identical copies of things are never going to happen. But that's not the way evolution works anyway. If we think about de-extinction in a logical, ethical, ecologically sustainable way, it can't be this purist ideal of what the extinction means. Instead, it has to be this creation of something new that's adapted for the habitat…
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The Conversation
Sharks, turtles and other sea creatures face greater risk from industrial fishing than previously thought
Examining five years of data from fishing vessel location devices and the habitats of 14 large marine species, including seabirds, sharks, turtles, sea lions and tunas, we found that our estimates of risk to these animals increased by nearly 25% when we accounted for the presence of dark vessels.
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Yahoo Finance
Beth Shapiro Joins Colossal as Chief Science Officer
Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company, today announced that UC Santa Cruz professor Beth Shapiro, internationally renowned evolutionary molecular biologist, leader in paleogenomics, and ancient DNA expert, has joined as Chief Science Officer.