Most of Northern California’s kelp forest ecosystem is gone, replaced by widespread ‘urchin barrens’ that…
Browsing: UC Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) is a public research university located in Santa Cruz, California. It was founded in 1965 as one of the campuses of the University of California system and is known for its progressive, non-traditional educational approach and picturesque campus nestled in a redwood forest overlooking the Pacific Ocean. UCSC is well-regarded for its strong programs in astronomy and astrophysics, marine sciences, biology, and computer science, among others. The university operates the Lick Observatory, a vital research facility for astronomers.
Study of Flowers With Two Types of Anthers Solves Mystery That Baffled Darwin Some flowers…
Researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to visualize quantum dots in bilayer graphene, an important…
A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to…
First clear confirmation of accretion disk formation in a tidal disruption event without x-ray emissions…
A comprehensive study of four salmon species across all regions of Alaska finds salmon are…
A simple model explains a wide range of observations by describing a contest between galaxy…
The first end-to-end (‘telomere-to-telomere’) completely gapless DNA sequence of a human chromosome is a major…
Evidence Supports ‘Hot Start’ Scenario and Early Ocean Formation on Pluto A new study suggests…
UCSC researchers developed a deep-learning framework called Morpheus to perform pixel-level morphological classifications of objects…
Campaigns to plant 1 trillion trees must be undertaken with care and a commitment to…
Researchers demonstrated the mathematical impossibility of representing social networks and other complex networks using popular…
A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts for all of the observed characteristics of…
The bright colors of the chicks of American coots help their parents choose favorites, according…
A giant-impacts phase in the evolution of planetary systems can explain the observations of close-in…
Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in…
Mysterious features seen in light emitted from active galactic nuclei may be due to partial…
A ‘deep learning’ algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at…