Earth & Space
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Models explain mysterious feature controlling magnetic properties of the Sun
UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the correct dynamical ingredients.
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UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association announces 2025 UCSC Alumni Awards recipients
Barry J. Bowman, Terri McCullough, Daniel (Nane) Alejandrez, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Aviv Elor are the recipients of the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Alumni Awards.
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DESI collaboration to receive 2026 Berkeley Prize from AAS
The American Astronomical Society award recognizes the potentially paradigm-shifting work of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration
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New model aims to demystify ‘steam worlds’ beyond our solar system
Water-rich exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may indicate where life exists elsewhere in the universe
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Brightest fast radio burst ever seen lets researchers pinpoint origin with unprecedented precision
Researchers use newly deployed ‘CHIME Outrigger’ telescopes and deep-space imaging to challenge long-held assumptions about what causes these mysterious cosmic signals
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New program to train U.S. college students from all backgrounds to be conservation leaders
$1 million from Cedar Tree Foundation will fund a conservation-leadership academy to continue the work of the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars program at UC Santa Cruz
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UC Santa Cruz-based survey uses AI to spot explosive stellar death by black hole
Machine learning enables real-time detection of fleeting anomalies before they fade away
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UC Santa Cruz marine biologists bring expertise to regional scientific organizations
Professors Roxanne Beltran and Dan Costa named to committees focused on activities on the West Coast and in Antarctica
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Global physics conference comes to UC Santa Cruz for first time—and why it matters
Physicists from around the world will converge on campus to offer possible answers to some of the biggest and most vexing questions about the particle makeup of the universe and everything in it.
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New theories on dark matter’s origins point to ‘mirror world’ and universe’s edge
Two recent studies speculate a natural emergence of the mysterious substance, offering ‘self-contained and calculable scenarios’
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Center for Coastal Climate Resilience Fellows bridge disciplines to build resilient communities
In part two of our series highlighting CCCR fellows, we spoke with fellows who use their unique cross-disciplinary backgrounds to advance climate resilience.
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Eric Palkovacs appointed new director of Institute of Marine Sciences
The professor of ecology and evolutionary biology is also UC Santa Cruz’s associate vice chancellor for research and director of the Fisheries Collaborative Program