On gender: misperceptions about others can stifle women’s empowerment

In a pair of recent papers, David W. Lawson and his team at UCSB’s Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Lab shed light on possible explanations for gender bias. Their research was carried out in an urbanizing rural community in northwestern Tanzania.

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Physicists work toward theory to describe pattern formation in conserved fields

Physics theorists Cristina Marchetti and Fridtjof Brauns investigate non-reciprocal interactions in active matter, which can generate distinct patterns and traveling waves.

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Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down

A team led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara has added another sense to the mosquito’s documented repertoire: infrared detection. Infrared radiation from a source roughly the temperature of human skin doubled the insects’ overall host-seeking behavior when combined with CO2 and human odor.

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