Media Coverage
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These lizards have been playing rock-paper-scissors for 15 million years
Biologist Barry Sinervo is featured in a KQED article and video about his research on the mating games of California's side-blotched lizards.
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Genome reveals why giraffes have long necks
Genomics expert David Haussler was quoted in coverage of the giraffe genome in Nature and Scientific American.
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‘UCSC Night at the Museum’ to spotlight African American art and history
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about an Institute for Humanties Research public event at the Museum of Art and History, featuring the Kinsey Collection and an interview with the author of The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America, including comments from history professor David Anthony.
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Fishes use problem solving and invent tools
Biologist Giacomo Bernardi's video of tool use by fish is featured in a Scientific American article about fish intelligence.
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Sharks’ electricity-sensing organs are even more powerful than we realized
Electrical engineer Marco Rolandi was quoted in news coverage of his research on electrosensory organs in sharks, including stories in the Washington Post, Popular Science, Cosmos, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Yahoo News, Discovery News, MotherBoard, Gizmag, Digital Trends, Toronto Star, Glasgow Daily News, International Business Times, and other media outlets.
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Cannibal stars explode violently – as predicted by Darwin’s son
New Scientist ran a story about research by astronomer Morgan MacLeod on a rare "red nova" in the Andromeda galaxy.
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Nature’s life cycle is focus of UCSC climate walk
Biology grad student Juliet Oshiro is featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the monthly Climate Walk she leads at the UCSC Arboretum.
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Effect of ocean acidification on shellfish depends on other stressors
Biologist Kristy Kroeker was quoted in coverage of her research on ocean acidification, including stories from UPI, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Breitbart, Science Newsline, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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A DNA sequencer in every pocket
Biomolecular engineer David Deamer is featured in an article about nanopore sequencing in the Atlantic magazine. Deamer and Mark Akeson also contributed a perspectives piece to Nature Biotechnology on three decades on nanopore sequencing.
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David Brundage–The Easter Rising 100 years on: how the Irish revolution fired up American politics
History professor David Brundage contributed a piece to The Conversation, an independent news and commentary web site produced by academics and journalists, based on research from his new book, Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998.
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Will the real Earthlike planets please stand up?
Astronomer Greg Laughlin is quoted in a National Geographic blog about the difficulty of determining if any newly discovered exoplanets are truly Earth-like.
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Alastair Bland’s Fish Wrap: Salmon angling picking up
Marine ecologist Mark Carr is quoted in the Marin Independent Journal fishing column about the decline of North Coast kelp forests and its impacts on abalone and rockfish.