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Who’s afraid of who? Mountain lions fear and avoid humans
Anthropocene Magazine covered new research from Environmental Studies Professor Chris Wilmers and Center for Integrated Spatial Research Director Barry Nickel, which showed how the energetic cost of avoiding humans affects habitat use among local pumas.
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Tetrahedron Solutions Finally Proved Decades After Computer Search
Mathematician Martin Weissman was quoted in a Quanta article about a new proof regarding tetrahedrons.
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Novavax offers first evidence that COVID vaccines protect people against variants
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a Nature article about the effectiveness of vaccines against new variants of the coronavirus.
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How Seals Are Uncovering Secrets of the Southern Ocean
Marine ecologist Luis Huckstadt was featured in articles in Good Times and Santa Cruz Sentinel about his research in Antarctica.
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The pandemic has erased entire categories of friendship
Psychology Ph.D. student Andrew Guydish talked with The Atlantic about his recent research on "conversation reciprocity" and what it may tell us about the challenges of maintaining relationships while working remotely.
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CZU burn scar is geologically different — and that might be reducing debris-flow risk
Geologist Noah Finnegan was quoted in articles in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Lookout Santa Cruz about the risk of debris flows in the Santa Cruz Mountains as more rain falls on burned areas.
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Saving The Endangered Languages Of The Monterey Bay Area
Monterey Bay NPR affiliate KAZU interviewed linguistics professor Maziar Toosarvandani for a story about how UCSC linguists are working to preserve indigenous languages spoken by communities originally from Mexico that are now living in the Monterey Bay area.
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Crushed space rocks hint at exoplanets’ early atmospheric makeup
Astrophysicist Maggie Thompson was featured in a Science News story about her research using meteorites to study exoplanet atmospheres.
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California discloses math behind easing stay-at-home order
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in an Associated Press story, which ran on ABC News and other sites, about the lifting of stay-at-home orders in California.
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There's Good News And Bad News About The Coronavirus Variants And Vaccines
Biomolecular engineer Russ Corbett-Detig was quoted in a Buzzfeed news story about the new coronavirus variants.