4+ hour, 46+ min ago  (614+ words) The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than 47 million galaxies and quasars, and will continue observations into 2028 and further expand the map. Researchers use DESI's huge 3 D map to study dark…...

2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (328+ words) The second annual Landesman Lecture features UC Santa Cruz professor Enrico Ramirez Ruiz in conversation with slam poet Jasmine Schlafke'blending science, poetry and storytelling to explore our deepest origins and shared humanity. The lecture series is made possible by UC…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (496+ words) Two recent studies speculate a natural emergence of the mysterious substance, offering "self-contained and calculable scenarios" An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (456+ words) 51 Pegasi b Fellow Sarah Steele will spend three years at UC Santa Cruz working with Earth and planetary scientists to advance her work to decode ancient magnetic records preserved in rocks Sarah Steele also studies the process by which a…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (366+ words) New paper led by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate suggests that long-dormant galaxies deemed to be dead may actually be stunted by the dynamics of supermassive black holes at their center Red geysers make up only about 6 to 8 percent of nearby…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (703+ words) UC Santa Cruz - News Alexie Leauthaud has spent most of her career looking toward distant galaxies and envisioning the edge of the universe. But in recent years, Leauthaud " an observational cosmologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz " has turned her…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (234+ words) At this week's national gathering, astronomy and astrophysics professors Bryan Gaensler, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, and Connie Rockosi were honored for outstanding contributions to the field, as was alumna Kathryn Johnston From left to right, Science Division Dean Bryan Gaensler and Professors…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (367+ words) Earth and planetary sciences professor Andrew Fisher will lead hydrogeology simulations to study how water, heat, and chemicals circulate between rocky seafloors and subsurface oceans on worlds like Europa and Enceladus Ocean worlds such as Jupiter's icy moon Europa and…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (435+ words) Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of atmospheric lines'and scientific consensus Left: Artistic conception of the longheld astronomical assumption of brown dwarfs resembling Jupiter in…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1007+ words) Scientists today recognize that most stars in the universe host exoplanets, and with almost 6, 000 already found since their first detection in the 1990s, billions more are waiting to be discovered." Researchers at UC Santa Cruz's Santa Cruz Extreme AO Lab (SEAL)…...