A new fund at UC Santa Barbara will help students transform ideas at the intersection of Indigenous studies and environmental action into projects with community impact. The Kenneth Robert Lincoln ...

When it comes to climate change, preventing greenhouse gas emissions is the name of the game. But what if instead of preventing emissions, we started sucking carbon directly out of the atmosphere?

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPS, a dark matter candidate — but researchers will need more data to confirm For the better part ...

We speak of “butterflies in the stomach,” a “racing heart,” being “choked up” or needing to “catch our breath.” Language routinely treats emotion and thought as though they inhabit the body. But why ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tasked scientists with developing a system that can receive instructions and synthesize a sequence of DNA or RNA without any chemical input.

In September 2022, astronomers noticed a perplexing feature on an image of a galaxy around 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. A thin line stretching over 202,000 light-years pointed directly away ...

Each year, more than 500 researchers, industry scientists and students use UC Santa Barbara’s open-access Nanofabrication Facility, known as the Nanofab, to design and build microchips for ...

Alexander Cho is a media scholar, digital design researcher, critical theorist, and pop culture geek. His research combines critical race theory, queer theory, design thinking, and ethnography to ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) are blazing a trail through the Wild West of AI-assisted science, with a field guide aimed at ...

Dolly Parton’s cultural power was never simply a matter of popularity. It was the unlikely range of people drawn to her — people who often shared very little else — and the contradictions she seemed ...

Carolyn Mills is focused on the study and engineering of protein assemblies to address challenges in plastic waste remediation, biological liquid-liquid phase separation and oral vaccine development.

Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the ...