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(University of California - Santa Barbara) Doctors have always hoped that scientists might one day create a vaccination that would treat a broad spectrum of maladies.

They could only imagine that there might be one vaccine that would protect against, say, 2,500 strains of Salmonella.

And what if that same vaccine could help protect the elderly?

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Thousands of feet below the bottom of the sea, off the shores of Santa Barbara, single-celled organisms are busy feasting on oil.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers.

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have made a major contribution to this field by designing a new nanotechnology that will ultimately help make computers smaller, faster, and more efficient.

The new process is described in today's Science Express, the online version of the journal Science.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) A contingent of more than 40 faculty members, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, engineers, technicians and undergraduates from UC Santa Barbara have worked for eight years to help construct the massive Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

The UCSB group is part of an international effort that is now embarking on a 15-year quest to try to answer fundamental questions about the universe.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Joseph Polchinski, a professor of physics and a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2008 Dirac Medal, one of the world's most prestigious prizes in physics.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) UC Santa Barbara chemistry professor Galen Stucky has been honored for his role in the development of a blood-clotting gauze that is helping save soldiers who suffer severe, life-threatening injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense's Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care Award was presented to Stucky August 11 during the opening ceremonies of the group's annual meeting in Florida.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently reached what they are calling a milestone in experimental quantum mechanics.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) If Bruce Lipshutz has his way, you may soon be buying bottles of water brimming with the life-sustaining coenzyme CoQ10 at your local Costco.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic spectra match what astronomers have long predicted they would be.

Their work will be published in the July 24 issue of the science journal Nature.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Professor Shuji Nakamura, Director UC Santa Barbara's Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center, has been named a recipient of the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

Each recipient of the prestigious award is presented with a medal and a Joan Miro sculpture commissioned specifically for the awards; the recipients in each category also share a 50,000 euro stipend.