The world’s darkest material is Vantablack. This super-black coating absorbs 99.96% of visible light, creating a visual void. It has many practical applications, like improving the operation of ...

Beavers are the engineers of the natural world. The dams they fabricate not only create shelters for them, but also benefit their entire ecosystem. The ponds and marshes they help shape provide rich ...

The Hindu holiday of Maha Shivaratri is dedicated to overcoming ignorance and darkness in celebrants’ own lives and in the world. This year it falls on February 26. Even if you’re not Hindu, I ...

In 1997, Santa Cruz resident Carolyn Burke saw Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy-- her intricately researched biography of the once internationally notorious writer of shocking free verse, who ...

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Italian-born Peppino D’Agostino captures a vibrant and pure tone as deep as the wood grains on his guitars. Thursday January 30 at Ugly Mug.

Photograph by George Sakkestad Dear Property Owner: Jennifer Bragar is the author of a controversial letter asking property owners to contribute to a campaign against rent control. Raising The Dead ...

Surfing first landed on the continent at Santa Cruz. A trio of visiting Hawaiian princes, apparently missing their home break and willing to brave the comparatively frigid waters, procured suitable ...

On a recent Sunday, trapped inside all morning by the heavy charcoal sky, we waited for the storm to break through, releasing the anticipatory tension in the air. But the clouds sank lower and lower ...

On a brisk December morning, six women, including this reporter, are doing crunches on a frost-coated footbridge in the Pogonip's grass-filled lower meadow. "Six, seven, eight! Good jo-ob!" encourages ...