Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, UC San Francisco and international collaborators are uncovering the cascade of molecular events that happen when women undergo menopause, a time of life marked by ...

UCSB researchers bring complementary strengths to a $27.9 million NSF institute tackling one of superconducting quantum computing’s longstanding limitations After decades of advances in quantum ...

Nearly four decades after Robert Mehrabian helped transform a relatively small engineering college into a rising national powerhouse, UC Santa Barbara celebrated his enduring legacy with the official ...

For the 21st edition of UC Santa Barbara’s award-winning common book program, the campus has selected a timely and provocative exploration of modern tech economics, corporate accountability and the ...

Perched upon the Pacific Coast in sunny Goleta, UC Santa Barbara has an enviable campus that provides a unique suite of opportunities to the community, including dorm-side surfing, on-site marine ...

Rafael J. P. Schmitt studies the interconnections between river systems and societies, with a special focus on sustainable water infrastructure and the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus. His Lab for ...

With CO 2 emissions continuing unabated, an increasing number of policymakers, scientists and environmentalists are considering geoengineering to avert a climate catastrophe. Such interventions could ...

Researchers from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory (BOSL) and local partners in San Francisco have unveiled new technology in their ongoing efforts to prevent whales and oceangoing ...

A federal multibillion-dollar effort that subsidized internet service providers to bring broadband to underserved areas has provided much-needed high-speed internet to some of the country’s remote and ...

Using reprogrammed biocatalysts, researchers are pushing the boundaries of enzymatic synthesis with a method that opens the door to a diverse array of valuable compounds. Reporting in the journal ...

Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while ...

Hippopotamus aren’t the first thing that come to mind when considering epidemiology and disease ecology. And yet these amphibious megafauna offered UC Santa Barbara ecologist Keenan Stears a window ...