Touchdown airbursts — a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kind — remain somewhat less understood. UC Santa Barbara Earth Science Emeritus ...

Scientists have developed a method to automate the precise synthesis of oligosaccharides, opening new doors for biomedical research, including vaccines and diagnostics.

“It’s a national competition that happens every year at the Michigan International Speedway,” said Thomas Yu, who has served as Gaucho Racing’s president for the past year. A subset of the more ...

Researchers survey a cohort of 49 isolated young stars and their planet-forming disks, finding that at third of the suns are born tilted with respect to their protoplanetary disks ...

Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate this, predominantly through reducing emissions, but in some cases by ...

To help keep single-use plastics from Tajiguas Landfill, a pair of undergraduate students in the Environmental Leadership Incubator program have expanded recycling and reuse efforts across campus.

Among more than 1,300 titles across 26 categories, “Long Live Queer Nightlife” (Princeton University Press, 2024) is on the Lambda Literary Awards shortlist of top-five titles for the “Best Book in ...

Liming Zhang aims to develop new techniques for synthesizing a range of different compounds, particularly via catalytic platforms. By developing efficient and selective synthetic processes, he hopes ...

“Our study shows that improving access to technology like broadband internet and smartphones, and healthcare technology use like telehealth and health-related social media platforms, can significantly ...

Joseph Polchinski moved to UC Santa Barbara in 1992, where he was a Professor of Physics and a Permanent Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Polchinski's contributions to ...

Corina Logan's research has advanced our understanding of behavioral flexibility, linking behavior to environmental change, cognition, and success in human modified environments through a comparative ...

Researchers developed a metric for detecting how plants budget water based on soil moisture data, which can inform our own water management, agricultural activities and climate resilience.