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Turning Pages: UC Santa Cruz keeps Santa Cruz County reading
The Good Times ran a detailed feature story celebrating The Humanities Institute's Deep Read Program, now in its fifth year. This year's edition featured Hernan Diaz’s bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust.
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You should call House members ‘representatives,’ because that’s what they are − not ‘congressmen’ or ‘congresswomen’
Politics Department Professor and Chair Daniel Wirls wrote an article for The Conversation explaining that the gender-neutral term "representative" is actually the most constitutionally correct way to refer to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Two students find security bug that could let millions do laundry for free
The Verge reports that two UCSC engineering students discovered a security vulnerability in internet-connected laundry machines that could allow millions to do laundry for free. Additional coverage in Tech Crunch.
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Scientists discover a nitroplast, the 1st of its kind
The discovery of the organelle involved a bit of luck and decades of work. In 1998, Jonathan Zehr, a UC Santa Cruz distinguished professor of marine sciences, found a short DNA sequence of what appeared to be from an unknown nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium in Pacific Ocean seawater. Zehr and colleagues spent years studying the mystery organism, which…
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Sea otters get more prey and reduce tooth damage using tools
The frequency of tool-use behavior varies, with some otters doing it more than 90% of the time when feeding and others rarely or never, according to study co-author Rita Mehta, a University of California, Santa Cruz functional and comparative biologist. "Females need the calories. They are smaller than males, and pregnant or nursing females have…
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Capitola Wharf, wrecked in huge winter storms, set to reopen after $10 million upgrade
"There’s been a long history of construction and destruction at the Capitola Wharf," said Gary Griggs, a professor of Earth sciences at UC Santa Cruz. "It’s sort of like the Big Sur Highway."
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Platelet Pathway More Traveled with Age, Leads to Excessive Clotting
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News covered Camilla Forsberg's lab's discovery of a secondary population of platelet cells that lead to excessive clotting.
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Tuna Crabs, Neither Tuna Nor Crabs, Are Swarming Near San Diego
Megan Cimino, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, quoted. While the link between tuna crab aggregations and El Niño isn’t exactly clear cut, “when we think about climate change, the first thing to come to mind might be warming temperatures, but climate change can result…
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As dismantling of largest dam begins on Klamath River, activists see ‘new beginning’
Environmental Studies Ph.D. student Brook Thompson, a Yurok tribe member, spoke with the Los Angeles Times about her activism for dam removal along the Klamath River and how it feels to now see the river's largest dam being dismantled.
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How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
“Detecting a population of Earth-mass primordial black holes would be an incredible step for both astronomy and particle physics because these objects can’t be formed by any known physical process,” said William DeRocco, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz. Additional cover on Space.com.