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.

UC Santa Barbara psychologists Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler developed a curiosity-focused app that helps users build curiosity through small daily actions — offering new insight into how ...

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 ...

AI is driving exponential growth in data centers — and energy use. UCSB Bren School professor Eric Masanet explains the sustainability challenges and what can be done.

Earth emerged from the last ice age around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests the next one could be expected in 10,000 years’ time.

In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built ...

Prior efforts to develop hardware for optimization problems have involved Ising machines, a category of hardware solvers that incorporate the Ising model to find the absolute or approximate “ground ...

Jason Turowetz's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of multiple areas, including social theory, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, health and medicine, race and ethnicity ...

Shifting our diets to be more sustainable can be a powerful way for each of us to address both climate change and global food insecurity, however making such adjustments at the large scales necessary ...

Analyzing nearly 20 years of data, UCSB neuroscientists find that short burst of exercise, such as HIIT workouts, can boost cognitive function ...

In work conducted at both UC Santa Barbara and the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster of TU Dresden, biophysicist Otger Campàs and his research group have found that cell nuclei control the ...

Now, UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor James Kennett and colleagues report the presence of proxies associated with the cosmic airburst distributed over several separate sites in the eastern United ...