Scientists say they’ve answered a long-held question of Darwin’s on why islands are so productive – an important step toward planning protections against the effects of climate change.
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January is National Mentoring Month. A retired professor at UC San Diego has paired emeriti professors with first-generation students to great effect.
The dreaded blank page haunts every writer. But what happens in your brain when you run dry? And, more importantly, what – if anything – can be done about it?
Over the past 80 years sardine and anchovy have become icons of modern-day marine biology, oceanography and climate research.
When disaster strikes, billions of dollars are spent on food and supplies, with little accounting of whether relief groups bought the right things or what impact they had.
New analysis shows that warmer ocean temperatures in the Pacific are creating more intense typhoons.
In a changing climate, ocean populations sometimes rise and fall in unpredictable waves. Scientists, managers and fishers must make economically and ecologically sound decisions based on long-term outlooks.
Researchers find that ice around Antarctica shrank quickly last decade, raising concerns over this buttress against melting land-based ice and future sea-level rise.
Our two scholars look at the longer term consequences of this week’s elections: in Israel and in the US.
A new ecology study doesn’t focus on how people degrade the environment. Instead, it untangles the way physical factors in a pristine ecosystem drive the biology of what lives there.
We know that fishing has significant impacts on our oceans and the animals that live in them. Effects can range from habitat modification caused by bottom trawls, stock declines from overfishing or subtler…
Muslims in France and the French host population are locked in a discriminatory equilibrium. This is the conclusion, summarized in our soon-to-be published book, of a six-year research program that investigates…
For most of the world’s large economies, the sharp decline in oil and energy prices is great news. Cheaper energy will help boost economic growth and is especially welcome for lower- and middle-income…
Trawling – dragging heavy gear over ocean bottoms in search of fish near the sea floor – is arguably one of the most destructive human practices. Removing fish from the sea for an ever-hungry, growing…
Smoking weakens the immune system and lowers the ability of human cells to fight infection – research has shown this over and over again. Smoking cigarettes, and breathing in second-hand smoke, puts people…
Sea life can be fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Some creatures look beautiful on the outside but harbour darkness within. Some of the scariest tactics of the deep sea go on display when these…
The cooling of eastern Pacific Ocean waters has been counteracting the warming effect of greenhouse gases. Our research, released today in Nature, shows this natural variability in ocean cycles is responsible…
A new antibiotic that is effective at killing anthrax and superbug MRSA bacteria could be a weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance - and terrorism. Anthracimycin, a chemical compound derived…
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Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego
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Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego
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Doctoral Student in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental toxicology and cancer genomics, University of California, San Diego
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Ph.D. Candidate in Physical Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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Hydrologist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, University of California, San Diego
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Dermatology, University of California, San Diego
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and International Security, University of California, San Diego
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Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego
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Sociology PhD Researcher, University of California, San Diego
