Media Coverage
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Scientific American
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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Monterey County Herald
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 York Times
The Art World Chooses Its Favorite Films About Artists
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien contributed an appreciation of Derek Jarman’s film “Caravaggio” (1986) to a feature story about films with artists as protagonists.
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New York Times
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alto Saxophone
Distinguished Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Eric Porter wrote about the alto saxophonist and composer Arthur Blythe’s ‘Lenox Avenue Breakdown’ as part of a New York Times feature story.
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Quanta
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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Scientific American
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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Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
Book review: Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist
Associate Professor of Literature Zac Zimmer reviewed the book Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist: A Critical History of Women, Patriarchy, and Mexican National Discourse, for Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Journal.
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IEEE Spectrum
Smart Bandage Uses Electricity and Drugs to Heal Wounds
A multidisciplinary research team led by Marco Rolandi, professor of electrical and computer engineering, developed a smart bandage that could speed up wound healing by actively tracking and responding to the healing process.
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Forbes
Isaac Julien’s ‘All That Changes You’ At Palazzo Te—A Visionary Dialogue Between Myth, Art And The Future
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien was featured in Forbes Magazine, which hailed his “breathtaking new film installation” at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy. The installation was commissioned to mark the 500th anniversary of Giulio Romano’s architectural masterpiece.
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Interesting Engineering
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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Good Times
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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Science News
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.