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.

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

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 tease apart the role of behavioral flexibility in great-tailed grackles' ability to flourish in human-made environments ...

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.

UCSB’s Justin Wilson has developed a new approach to extract rare earth elements from waste. The goal is to make rare earth element recycling financially, logistically and environmentally attractive.

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.

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

Researchers have developed a model that captures the nuanced ways that plants manage water stress, and how this affects soil moisture levels.

A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They’re instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in ...

A sweeping new executive order to deregulate the U.S. seafood sector risks unraveling decades of scientific progress and environmental protections, according to aquaculture and fishery scientists ...

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.