Novelist Louis Bayard brings his 2024 book The Wildes to the stage at UC Santa Barbara, workshopping the adaptation through the LAUNCH PAD Summer Series with a public reading on July 10.

While short-term inflammation is essential to healing infections, chronic inflammation is known to damage organs and accelerate chronic diseases of aging.

UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division has launched a new award to spotlight the vital contributions of postdoctoral scholars, celebrating their excellence in mentorship and leadership. In its inaugural ...

Artist Kip Fulbeck has exhibited and performed in over 20 countries and throughout the U.S., and has been featured on CNN, MTV, The TODAY Show, The New York Times, Voice of America, and numerous NPR ...

Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck revisits The Hapa Project, exploring 25 years of mixed Asian Pacific Islander identity through portraits and personal stories.

Electron-phonon interactions — collisions between charge-carrying electrons and heat-carrying vibrations in the atomic lattice of the material — are considered the primary cause of electrons slowing ...

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 ...

Caitlin Casey is an observational astronomer with expertise in high-redshift galaxies. She uses the most massive and unusual galaxies at early times to test fundamental properties of galaxy assembly ...

AI is driving exponential growth in data centers — and energy use. UCSB Bren School professor Eric Masanet explains the sustainability challenges and what can be done.

In a significant advancement for semiconductor technology, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have unveiled novel three-dimensional (3D) transistors utilizing two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Their ...

With today's avocado industry dominated by a single variety, the Hass, concerns grow over their vulnerability to disease and climate change. Could genetic diversity preserved in relict populations aid ...

Earth emerged from the last ice age around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests the next one could be expected in 10,000 years’ time.