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The researchers spotted the first four spiders hiding almost imperceptibly in a photograph from the powerful cameras on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: “The spider legs are almost at the edge of resolution,” says the study’s lead author, Mikhail A. Kreslavsky, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

A family group of coyotes have dwelled in the Presidio for decades, and the canines visit and occupy beach habitats year-round, which can be important areas for feeding and denning in the same way green spaces and parks are in a highly developed city like San Francisco, said Frankie Gerraty, a Ph.D. student at UC…

Annapurna Devi Pandey, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose research has taken her to homes for the abandoned in her native India, says respect for elders remains ingrained in society, but some must make a difficult choice between caring for their children or their parents. “The sense of duty,” she says,…

Several options exist for dealing with climate hazards in California prisons, explains Abby Cunniff, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies environmental injustice and California prisons. One is to make prisons more durable to climate effects. 

UC Santa Cruz will receive more than $2 million in federal grant funding from the total $71.1 million recently awarded to the California Marine Sanctuary Foundation to boost the resiliency of coastal communities threatened by sea level rise and extreme weather.

“In order for cloning to be an option, one needs cells that are alive,” said Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz and chief science officer of the de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences, who was not involved in the lunar biorepository proposal. This means it is not possible to clone…