In recognition of Henry T. Yang’s 31 years of service as UC Santa Barbara's fifth chancellor, Mesa Road has been renamed in Yang's honor. Signage for Henry T. Yang Drive will be installed before the ...

UC Santa Barbara professor Dorit Hanein, a leading expert in cellular tomography — a technique that allows researchers to see the inside of a cell in three dimensions with remarkable detail — has been ...

Chetan Nayak has made significant contributions to the theory of topological phases, high-temperature superconductivity, ‘strange metals’, the effects of impurities on electronic behavior, the quantum ...

After graduating from UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Studies Program in 1994, Keith pursued a career in journalism, initially writing for The Channels at Santa Barbara City College. He then worked ...

Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around ...

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 ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California’s Native Americans, Lynn Gamble knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years. But an exhaustive ...

Some of Southern California’s most iconic and popular beaches have lost most of their biodiversity, according to marine scientists To most people, a beach is a beach. You could likely take an image of ...

Computers have come so far in terms of their power and potential, rivaling and even eclipsing human brains in their ability to store and crunch data, make predictions and communicate. But there is one ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...