Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate this, predominantly through reducing emissions, but in some cases by ...

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.

“Our study shows that improving access to technology like broadband internet and smartphones, and healthcare technology use like telehealth and health-related social media platforms, can significantly ...

Seeking to support Santa Barbara area high school students interested in applying to any University of California campus, the admissions team at UC Santa Barbara is hosting free community workshops to ...

Joseph Polchinski moved to UC Santa Barbara in 1992, where he was a Professor of Physics and a Permanent Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Polchinski's contributions to ...

Corina Logan's research has advanced our understanding of behavioral flexibility, linking behavior to environmental change, cognition, and success in human modified environments through a comparative ...

Researchers have mapped the spread of a deadly fungal infection ravaging an endangered frog, revealing some of the factors driving the outbreak.

Santa Barbara Channel’s natural oil seeps are a beach-goer’s bane, flecking the shores with blobs of tar. But the leaking petroleum also creates fascinating geologic and biologic features. About 10 ...

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

Scientists uncover why some waterways form single channels, while others divide into many threads, solving a longstanding quandary in the science of rivers.

It’s also a problem UC Santa Barbara researchers Charlie Xiao, Elliot Hawkes and Bolin Liao are hoping to make a dent in. In a paper in the journal Device, the trio present an adaptive tile, which ...