Media Coverage
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Scientists Identify the World’s First Known Dog, Which Pushes Back the Animals’ Genetic Record by About 5,000 Years
Regardless, the studies provide a “significant advance” in understanding the origins of dogs, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the work, tells Science News.
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Are Saturn’s rings made of a lost, shattered moon? New evidence arises for the case
The findings, led by Yifei Jiao of the University of California, Santa Cruz, are the latest in a growing body of evidence pointing to a solution to two long-standing puzzles, Saturn’s present-day tilt and why its rings appear far younger than the planet itself, which formed more than 4.5 billion years ago.
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Vanishing Giants: Turning the Tide
Emmy-winning TV journalist Stephanie Lin joined Ocean Sciences Professor Ari Friedlaender as his team collected tissue samples from marine mammals off the coast of Santa Cruz.
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Trump’s SAVE Act, government shutdown and Iran war dominate weekend political news
Nolan Higdon, a political history professor at UC Santa Cruz, said the bill’s prospects are dim even among Republicans. “I don’t think a lot of Republicans will say it publicly, but I don’t think they’re too excited about it,” Higdon said, adding that provisions targeting mail-in voting could hurt the GOP’s own voters. “This would…
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The silent majority: RNAs that don’t make proteins
“You can think of them as acting as scaffolds, where they can bring in other binding partners,” says Susan Carpenter, a cell and molecular biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Clumps of mouse brain cells can learn to play a virtual game
The organoids didn’t retain that knowledge for long, says cognitive neuroscientist Ash Robbins of the University of California, Santa Cruz. But ultimately, researchers hope that brain organoids can help them understand how healthy human brains learn, as well as how cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease impair this capacity.
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For This Bay Area Island City, Water Is Coming From All Sides
But water from above is not the only issue. Patrick Barnard, research director for the UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, said about 60% of Alameda’s groundwater is already close to the surface — without further sea level rise. “We know there are lots of issues in Alameda, but bottom line, it’s effectively…
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Elephant seal pup spotted in Santa Cruz
As scientists continue to survey Año Nuevo beaches, they find an average of two newly sick elephant seals and two newly dead elephant seals each day, said Patrick Robinson, Año Nuevo Reserve director at UC Santa Cruz.
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I paused my PhD for 11 years to help save Madagascar’s seas
After more than a decade away from doctoral studies, Rabearisoa started a new PhD, this time researching marine conservation at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She investigated how the web of LMMAs that she helped to create is affecting fish populations and fisher incomes.
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Bay Area elephant seal deaths round triple digits amid bird flu outbreak
Año Nuevo Reserve Director Patrick Robinson told KRON4 on Friday that the estimated total number of elephant seal deaths from HPAI on the mainland is about 50, plus another 45 to 50 on the island.
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California’s $20 fast food wage yields higher prices, fewer jobs, more automation
On Wednesday, University of California – Santa Cruz released a real world appraisal of how the $20 mandate has affected owners and employees of fast food franchises. Stephen Owen, an economics lecturer, and a team of undergraduate helpers visited and studied more than 100 outlets in Santa Cruz and the Central Valley and came away with data…
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Opinion: We’re scientists. We use AI. And we fear it.
Opinion piece by UC Santa Cruz Professors J. Xavier Prochaska and David Haussler issuing a stark warning about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, along with a call for urgent global cooperation to ensure that technology remains a tool for human benefit rather than a force for societal displacement. Also in the East Bay Times…