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What the Artemis II Astronauts Revealed About Awe in Space

Author Deana Weibel on the ultraview effect and what the recent Artemis II mission shows us about the powerful experience of awe.
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Erosive Forms and a Climate of Violence in the Work of Juan Rulfo: A Q&A with Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson talks about his ecocritical analysis of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
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UC Press welcomes The Chemical Educator to its portfolio of journals

The Chemical Educator is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing excellence in chemistry education.
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The Ultraview Effect: What We Can Learn from Astronauts about Awe, Humility, and Exploring the Unknown

by Deana L. Weibel (Author)
May 2026

Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History over the Last 10,000 Years

by Robert B. Marks (Author)
May 2026

Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity

by Robert N. Spengler (Author)
Sep 2026

On the Front Lines of Climate and Biodiversity Science: Lessons from UC Davis Field Research Stations

by Gary Bucciarelli (Editor), Edward J. Larson (Editor)
Dec 2026
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On the Front Lines of Climate and Biodiversity Science: Lessons from UC Davis Field Research Stations

by Gary Bucciarelli (Editor), Edward J. Larson (Editor)
Dec 2026
Open Access

Making Our Beasts: Paleontology in the United States

by Elana Shever (Author)
Dec 2025
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DNA, Race, and Reproduction

by Emily Klancher Merchant (Editor), Meaghan O'Keefe (Editor)
Jan 2025
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation

by Ned Randolph (Author)
Feb 2024
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Disrupting the Patron: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco

by Joel E. Correia (Author)
Apr 2023
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The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life

by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (Author)
Feb 2023
Open Access

Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention

by Charlene Villaseñor Black (Editor), Mari-Tere Álvarez (Editor)
Nov 2019
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Rivers of the Anthropocene

by Jason M. Kelly (Editor), Philip Scarpino (Editor), and 3 more
Nov 2017
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