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    32 Bits That Changed Microprocessor Design

    Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering Steve Kang is highlighted for his role in developing the the Bellmac-32 microprocessor, a technology essential for telecommunications switching that would serve as the backbone for future computing systems

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    Cell Segmentation Method From Fred Hutch Team May Improve Spatial Biology Accuracy

    Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Ali Shariati, an expert in cell segmentation, commented on the potential of new technology for advancing the spatial transcriptomics field.

  • The Washington Post

    Vitamin D may slow a process related to aging, new study suggests

    Carol Greider, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for her discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that protects telomeres from shortening, said that she was skeptical of the new study’s findings.

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    How do clownfish survive a heat wave? By shrinking themselves down

    Many animals around the world are getting smaller, says Alexa Fredston, a quantitative ecologist at University of California, Santa Cruz, who wasn’t involved in the study. … By measuring individual fish, “the results paint a fascinating and complex picture of how individual animals respond to a prolonged marine heat wave,” Fredston says.

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    The Coyotes of San Francisco

    “Did they walk over the Golden Gate Bridge?” asked Christine Wilkinson, a carnivore ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “That’s my top theory.” Once the first coyotes returned to the city, she said, they probably howled to attract others to follow. “Coyotes will be where they want to be,” Wilkinson said.

  • Bloomberg

    As Coastline Erodes, One California City Considers ‘Retreat Now’

    “We overall are much better at spending recovery money — that is, addressing issues after disasters — than we are at spending hazard mitigation,” said Michael Beck, director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at the University of California, Santa Cruz. On the East Coast, the predominant strategy for protecting shorelines has been to…

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    Isaac Julien’s gorgeous shots reclaim authorship of history

    Filmmaker’s first major Bay Area exhibition beholds Harlem Renaissance queer culture, James Baldwin, blaxploitation.

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    How Real ID Excludes Real Americans

    Catherine S. Ramírez, professor of Latin American and Latino Studies wrote about the challenges many Americans face in getting Real ID’s, especially for those who have changed their names at some point in their lives.

  • WIRED

    Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

    “One of the reasons I kind of like these papers is that they really highlight a lot of differences,” said Bradley Colquitt, a molecular neuroscientist at UC Santa Cruz. “It allows you to say: What are the different neural solutions that these organisms have come up with to solve similar problems of living in a…

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    UC Santa Cruz research finds viable alternative to using wild-caught ingredients in fishmeal

    Researchers at UC Santa Cruz successfully developed an aquaculture feed for rainbow trout that removes fishmeal entirely, substituting it with leftover marine microalgae sourced from the human dietary supplement industry. 

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    Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter’s super volcanic moon Io

    “The moon gets sort of confused,” planetary scientist Francis Nimmo, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, told Space.com. “It doesn’t know exactly what orbit it should be adopting, and so it can develop kind of a weird orbit.”

  • Good Times

    Musical Treasures

    A youthful ‘Figaro,’ polyphonic Palestrina and a shot of Espressivo

Last modified: May 27, 2025