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“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

For a quarter of a century, the University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) has ...

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A Santa Cruz biology teacher is suddenly in the spotlight after Khloé Kardashian responded to his Instagram post with a ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

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The Humanist Society of Santa Barbara recently hosted a talk "The Misinformation Trap and Changing Minds: My Journey from ...

Winter break is the perfect time to curl up with a book or movie that you might not normally have time to read or watch, so ...

Xenobiology is a new and rapidly growing branch of science that studies how life could exist using biological systems different from those that prevail on the earth. The word comes from the Greek for ...

We’ve all heard it before: “You are the way you are because of your genes.” And yes, biology does shape us. But it’s not the entire story and definitely not the final one. Our genes don’t hand us a ...