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“This testing on people who were not genuine volunteers, who were not genuinely informed of the risk — they were human guinea pigs in an experiment that had no value at the end of the day,” said Daniel Hirsch, the retired director of the former Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of…

Climate change is altering regional grasslands at remarkable speed as species that thrive in hotter, drier conditions dominate the ecosystem, scientists reported in a recent study. The researchers found this strong trend at test sites across California, with the most notable results near Elkhorn Slough, at UC Santa Cruz and in coastal Mendocino County. "I…

Thematic dream analysis can help you uncover the repetitive thoughts, emotions and behavioral patterns that could use some addressing. Thematic analysis as a dream method has been developed and refined by several researchers over time, including the prominent work of G. William Domhoff, a psychologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

The jury is still out on whether lithium development at the Salton Sea will help the majority-Latino communities living in California’s second-poorest county. This is the topic of a new book from Chris Benner, sociologist and director of the Institute for Social Transformation at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and scholar-activist Manuel Pastor, director of the University…

Mangroves have been shown to provide $855 billion in flood protection services worldwide, according to a new study from the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz. The research, conducted by project co-lead, Pelayo Menendez and center director, Michael W. Beck, is featured in the World Bank’s 2024 edition of The Changing Wealth…

Although it’s unlikely, Steven Ward, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has created a series of animations to show how a big tsunami might spread through San Francisco Bay. In Ward’s simulations, the incoming wave stands just over 16 feet tall.

"It’s really a subtle effect between an earthquake that can cause a very large tsunami and one that doesn’t at all, and that has to do with what direction the fault moves. If it’s moving side to side it’s not very likely to push up a big pile of water and make a tsunami, but…

University of California, Santa Cruz, researchers say they have improved the waste oil-to-biodiesel production process with a simple, circular method involving mild heat. "I always wanted to work on biodiesel," said doctoral student Kevin Lofgren, the study's lead author. "I started exploring this new material that we made to see if it could attack the…

According to co-author Jairo Velasco, Jr., associate professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, as electrons move from one point to another in a closed orbit, the property of the subatomic particle is better preserved. This could have wide applications in everyday electronics, demonstrating how data encoded in electrons’ properties could be transferred without loss.