Madeleine Gross is a leading researcher in the psychology of curiosity, creativity, and personality development. Her work—featured in popular media outlets like The New York Times, Psyche and Closer ...

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 ...

Insects often exist on the periphery of our experiences. They blend into the landscape and soundscape, rarely the objects of our attention. But an exhibition at the UC Santa Barbara Library draws our ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

For more than three decades, global human rights scholar Alison Brysk has studied the drivers and responses to abuses of power, from domestic violence to dictatorships. Among the many issues on her ...

Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists unveils first-of-its-kind topological qubit, paving the way for a more fault-tolerant quantum computer In a leap forward for quantum computing, a ...

Renowned author Percival Everett’s celebrated new novel “James” (2024) reimagines the escape of the enslaved character “Jim” from Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) canonical American classic, “Adventures ...

Art has long been seen as a means of expressing beauty, emotion and ideas. But can it also change the way we think? Beyond its aesthetic value, can art open our minds, expand our understanding and ...

UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College have joined forces to expand a program that provides critical workforce pathways for micro/nanotechnology and semiconductor manufacturing. Supported by ...

Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth’s atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread ...