The Plastic Plight of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Annette Ding
Staff Writer
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a 79,000 ton mass of debris floating in the North Pacific Ocean.
An international team...
Groundbreaking Study Maps Global Fishing Patterns
Dylan Goldman
Staff Writer
Scientists at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management recently published a first-of-its-kind study about their four-year project that tracked most...
Explaining the Cambridge Analytica Scandal to a Student
Jack Alegre
Features Editor
While scrolling through your Facebook timeline, you might have noticed something called Cambridge Analytica pop up more than once. If that less-than-thrilling...
UCSB Helps Advance the Field of Aquaculture
Hannah Maerowitz
Staff Writer
A team of researchers, including fellows and faculty at the UC Santa Barbara National Center for Ecological Analysis and the Bren School...
Turkey Creates State-Backed Cryptocurrency “Turkcoin”
Jacob Wong
Student investors at UCSB looking for the next hot Bitcoin or Ethereum, look no further: cryptocurrency is coming to Turkey.
Dubbed “Turkcoin,” the...
Severe Drought Grips Santa Barbara County, Again
Victoria Penate
A large portion of California is currently experiencing abnormally dry conditions, which could potentially lead to another statewide drought. There has been a...
Google Tightens Hold on Digital Ad Industry With New Policy of Automatically Blocking Ads
Jessica Gang
Staff Writer
On Feb. 15, Google implemented a new ad-blocking policy that aims to automatically block ads that fail to comply with the new...
Samsung Impresses Users with Unveiling of Galaxy S9
Ziqiang Zhao
Staff Writer
Samsung’s Galaxy S9 has attracted much attention from people all over the world since the beginning of 2018, and details of the...
SpaceX Impresses with the Falcon 9 Rocket
Dylan Goldman
Staff Writer
After minor difficulties and two delays, SpaceX finally launched a single core of their anticipated Falcon 9 rocket along with two subsidiary...
Cancer-Fighting Vaccine Tested on Mice
Victoria Penate
A new discovery has been made regarding a particular type of stem cell which has proven effective in reducing or eliminating cancer cells...
