The first group of incoming doctoral students in UC Santa Barbara’s newly launched GRAD EDGE (Engagement and Development for Graduate Equity) program begin their eight-week summer bridge studies in ...

Baltimore native Terrell Winder graduated from Columbia University before heading to UCLA for grad school. Right away he picked up on the differences between his historically Black hometown upbringing ...

UC Santa Barbara has been named the first-ever university recipient of the 2026 Zero Trust Champion Award at the Zscaler Public Sector Summit. The award recognizes organizations that are fundamentally ...

UC Santa Barbara physicists John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Selected for the honor alongside UC Berkeley physicist and former advisor John Clarke, ...

Mosquitoes are the most dangerous animals in the world. The diseases they transmit have spread death and misery since time immemorial. Aedes aegypti is a particularly treacherous mosquito because it ...

The trade of totoaba has all the intrigue of a crime thriller. Dollars and drugs change hands as a criminal cartel vies against the government. Communities and endangered species are caught in the ...

From the highest mountains to the deepest ocean, the driest desert to the lushest jungle, Earth displays a dazzling array of lifeforms. And eukaryotes account for many of these lifeforms, including ...

Benjamin Cohen begins his new book — his 20 th, if you are counting — with a fictional news dispatch from the year 2035. “After years of festering discontent with the direction of politics in ...

Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, co-founded by UC Santa Barbara physicists, mark a major step in defining what dark matter can and cannot be Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible ...

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 ...

While Hollywood and Silicon Valley love the limelight, California is an agricultural powerhouse, too. Agricultural products sold in the Golden State totaled $59 billion in 2022. But rising ...

Using reprogrammed biocatalysts, researchers are pushing the boundaries of enzymatic synthesis with a method that opens the door to a diverse array of valuable compounds. Reporting in the journal ...