UCSC authors contribute to book about Hurricane Katrina

John Brown Childs, a professor of sociology at UCSC, is editor of a new book about Hurricane Katrina that includes essays by numerous UCSC scholars. (More)

Very high-energy gamma rays from Milky Way detected

Scientists using the Milagro Gamma-ray Observatory in New Mexico have captured evidence of radiation emitted from the plane of our home galaxy at extremely high energies. [More]