Renowned UC Santa Barbara physicist Gary Horowitz has been honored with the Dirac Medal for his landmark advancements in gravity and string theory, a rare distinction among scientists.

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...

Scientists have developed a method to automate the precise synthesis of oligosaccharides, opening new doors for biomedical research, including vaccines and diagnostics.

Touchdown airbursts — a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kind — remain somewhat less understood. UC Santa Barbara Earth Science Emeritus ...

“It’s a national competition that happens every year at the Michigan International Speedway,” said Thomas Yu, who has served as Gaucho Racing’s president for the past year. A subset of the more ...

Liming Zhang aims to develop new techniques for synthesizing a range of different compounds, particularly via catalytic platforms. By developing efficient and selective synthetic processes, he hopes ...

Anthropologists find that cranial lesions — used to assess the health of historical populations — are linked to compromised immunity ...

Among more than 1,300 titles across 26 categories, “Long Live Queer Nightlife” (Princeton University Press, 2024) is on the Lambda Literary Awards shortlist of top-five titles for the “Best Book in ...

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.

While global socioeconomic trends dominate how land use affects ecosystems, being strategic about how we abandon and expand agricultural land can protect habitat, biodiversity and carbon sinks.

Mehta’s assessment is based on newly published research he co-authored that strongly suggests the days of high manufacturing employment in this country, and just about every other, are over. A ...