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Protecting baby shellfish and mollusks from fishing nets in marine reserves helps replenish adult fish in open waters, according to UC Santa Cruz biologists.

Ask anyone what first comes to mind when they think of Los Angeles, and he or she will mention the glitz and the glam, the celebrity tabloids, Hollywood mansions and palm tree-lined freeways.

The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, which currently houses the Grateful Dead Archives, is searching for an archivist for its lauded collection.

SAN LEANDRO, CA, November 3, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Rhonda L. Farrell has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership, and excellence in information technology.

Although 25 administrators and professors at UC Santa Cruz earned $200,000 or more in 2008, the campus has the lowest faculty salaries of all nine of the University of California's undergraduate campuses, according to salary information released recently by the university.

I, too, have watched the 1996 movie "The Ghost and The Darkness," and where initially I believed it to be another total Hollywood fabrication, I was surprised through reading the mentioned books how close the movie stayed on track, though liberties were taken.

Marine biologists have figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin attacks.

The county has received nearly $100 million in federal stimulus funds, including money to replace the old Davenport water treatment plant Nearly $100 million of federal stimulus has been awarded in Santa Cruz County, according to government data released this week.

In a letter sent to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, Zelaya asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "to clarify to the Honduran people if the position condemning the coup d'etat has been changed or modified." His request came after Washington's top envoy to Latin America, Thomas Shannon, told CNN en Espanol that the U.S. will recognize the ...

A gigantic galactic graveyard lurks in the distant universe, and the death toll is growing.

The University of California-Santa Cruz could someday house the world's largest zoo - holding not live animals, but the genetic codes of 10,000 different creatures, many of them rare, exotic or extinct.

'Genomes contain information from the past -- they are molecular fossils,' said Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner, M.D. The Singapore laboratory that deciphered the DNA codes, or genomes, of the famed fugu and elephant shark, has joined The Genome 10K Project, an international effort to build an invaluable repository of DNA sequences on 10,000 species ...

The 1-inch lens through which Galileo saw mountains on the moon is a thousand times smaller than the lens of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will let scientists observe galaxies at the beginning of the universe.

The lions attacked and devoured workers building the Ugandan Railway line through Kenya during several months in 1898, stalling construction and creating a legend that became fodder for the 1996 movie The Ghost and the Darkness .

The two man-eating lions of Tsavo which terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya and have inspired three Hollywood films may not have been as deadly as legend would have it, a study published Monday has found.

Darth Vader's Death Star? Ming the Merciless and his war rockets? The awesome power of Chuck Norris? Piffle, suggests one astrophysicist, at least when it comes to explaining what force could have permanently bent a ring in our Milky Way Galaxy within the last 60 million years.

UC Santa Cruz will compete against 31 other campuses nationwide for the title of friendliest school for vegetarian diners, a leading animal rights organization for youth announced Monday.

Editor's note: Guest EthnoBlogger Nick Mitchell comments here on the ways in which the mainstream gay rights' movement focus on marriage equality is pitting queer communities and communities of color against each other.

Even though both seasonal and H1N1 flu are ramping up in their infection rates in Santa Cruz county potentially affecting many of school children, there is little or no seasonal flu vaccine available either from public or private health providers.

The Friends of the Cowell Lime Works Historic District will unveil a National Register of Historic Places plaque recognizing the district during a ceremony 4-5 p.m. Friday at the Cook House, located just inside the main entrance to UC Santa Cruz.