UCSB — The Current — ‘Some young suns are aligned with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted’ and more news, events
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“All young stars have these disks, but we’ve known little about their orientations with respect to the spin axis of the host stars,” said associate physics professor Brendan Bowler, senior author of a study published in Nature.
Researchers developed a metric for detecting how plants budget water based on soil moisture data, which can inform our own water management, agricultural activities and climate resilience.
Students Kaili Mikami and Lauren Buyalos are helping combat the rising tide of discarded plastics in research labs with FLOW (Facilitating Laboratory Optimization & Waste), their project to keep plastics from ending up in Tajiguas Landfill.
