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    BBC News

    ‘It’s just a weird, weird bird’: Why we got the dodo so absurdly wrong

    “The dodo laid a single egg in a nest on the ground, which made these eggs particularly vulnerable to predation by introduced species like rats and pigs, which arrived on Mauritius at the same time as people,” says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California-Santa Cruz.

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    Santa Cruz Sentinel

    UC Santa Cruz researcher develops innovative CRISPRware software

    Eric Malekos, a graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz with a background in computer science and mathematics, along with fellow Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Department Ph.D. student Christy Montano A Ph.D., has created an innovative software program called CRISPRware, which makes the process of gene editing faster and easier for researchers,…

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    Physics Today

    Conference organizers, potential participants fault US policies for falling attendance

    This year’s International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions is planned for mid-August at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Conference cochair Howard Haber expects about 150 participants, down from around 200 in recent years. He says that some international scientists have canceled their participation because they are “spooked by stories in the…

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    Astronomy Magazine

    Astronomers discover a pulsar and a helium star orbiting each other

    “There’s a physical law that if a binary system loses more than half its mass, the system will become unbound,” says Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. When the more massive star exploded and became a neutron star, Ramirez-Ruiz…

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    Washington Post

    Heat, storms, mosquitoes the big threats at Alligator Alcatraz, experts say

    Assistant Professor Carlos Martinez said that what he has seen so far of the facility is “alarming and disturbing.” While many of the health concerns about Alligator Alcatraz are the same as those for any detention center — overcrowding, inadequate sanitation and food, inadequate medical care — he said some, like the heat and mosquitoes,…

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    Lookout Santa Cruz

    How did these class rings stay put for decades? Santa Cruz County beach mystery delights ocean expert

    UC Santa Cruz coastal scientist Gary Griggs sees a scientific mystery in two lost-and-found class rings — including one buried for 44 years at Main Beach. Griggs says the stories challenge assumptions about coastal sand movement, raising new questions about how objects can remain so close to where they were lost despite decades of shifting…

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    Prism

    In the Central Valley, residents fight against California policies that incentivize pollution marketed as renewable energy   

    Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies J. Mijin Cha is skeptical of a state funding program to build digesters that produce methane fuel from cow waste. “Any time you build this new infrastructure, you’re entrenching us even further into the fossil fuel economy,” she said.

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    Nature

    ’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25

    Nature covers the UC Santa Cruz resource that serves as an essential tool for navigating the human genome and understanding its structure, function, and clinical impact, in conversation with Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler, Director of Public Platforms for the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Max Haeussler, Bioinformatics Programmer Angie Hinrichs, and Director…

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    LA Public Press

    Undocumented day laborers cleared debris after the Eaton Fire. Now they’re afraid to work

    Sociology Professor Juan Pedroza discussed the economic impacts of immigrant deportation. “We know raids and deportations harm the general labor market, including both immigrant workers and US households that rely on immigrant labor,” he said.

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    AP

    EPA employees put names to ‘declaration of dissent’ over agency moves under Trump

    “People are going to die,” said Carol Greider, a Nobel laureate and professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who also signed the letter. She described last week’s East Coast heat wave as evidence of the ways people are feeling the effects of climate change. “And if we don’t…

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    UCSC Study looks into Tiktok Cooking

    KION456 covers research from Assistant Professor of Computational Media Christina Chung and her Ph.D. student Ariel Wang on how teens’ use of TikTok affects their offline eating habits.

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    WHYY PBS

    25 years later: Inside the cut-throat race to decode the human genome

    Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler, Executive Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Lauren Linton, and Director of the UCSC Genome Browser Project Jim Kent recall their critical roles in the original project to sequence the human genome.

Last modified: Jul 15, 2025