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September 9, 2026

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Iris Holzer stands outside with her arms crossed

UCSB professor to lead international report on carbon capture, storage and utilization

Soil scientist Iris Holzer will help lead the team updating greenhouse gas accounting guidelines for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

 

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The rogue super-massive black hole compresses gas in its wake, forming a long “contrail” of young, blue stars. This unusual event happened when the universe was approximately half its current age.

Physicists reconstruct the collision that launched a runaway black hole

Researchers provide the first account of a class of black hole mergers predicted by general relativity, helping scientists prepare for the next generation of gravitational wave observatories.

 

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Scientific illustration of a 3D protein molecules structure, formed by amino acids and peptides, reflecting the protein-folding process.

New tools to study protein assembly may help in the search for neurodegenerative disease therapeutics

Computational models that use AI to predict distinct forms of protein assembly provide a novel approach to investigating the molecular behavior underlying disease.

 

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UC Santa Barbara named one of America's Best Colleges for Research

In the only assessment of its kind by a journalistic outlet, Washington Monthly ranked the campus No. 37 among top U.S. research universities, both public and private.

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