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.

A retinal stem cell patch developed through a collaboration of researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of Southern California and California Institute of Technology continues to make progress in ...

In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built ...

UC Santa Barbara Library has digitized the papers of celebrated physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018), creating a comprehensive online archive that offers unparalleled access to ...

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 ...

UCSB researchers lead a four-campus initiative examining heat exposure and its effects on elementary school children.

“We wanted to look at the trajectory of brain changes specifically within the gestational window,” said Laura Pritschet, lead author of a paper just published in Nature Neuroscience. Previous studies ...

Researchers at UCSB created deaf mosquitoes by knocking out a single gene and found that the males had absolutely no interest in mating.

Metatext: In his latest book, UCSB scholar Benjamin Cohen examines the global and domestic pressures that could push countries, including the U.S., toward breakup.

In the race to dominate artificial intelligence, technology companies are fueling an unprecedented expansion of data centers. These digital infrastructures power everything from search engines to ...

UC Santa Barbara media study finds parents’ phone use in front of their kids can have an adverse impact on emotional intelligence ...