Nitrogen is one of life’s building blocks, but it’s only helpful in the right amounts. Too much nitrogen in water, for example, can lead to poor water quality and the gradual death of aquatic ...

What do the Tsimané of lowland Bolivia have in common with the Hadza of Tanzania? Aside from their mostly nonindustrial lifestyles and the ocean between them for millennia, the two populations have ...

Giving undergraduate students a new way to explore environmental issues through the humanities, in conversation with the sciences and social sciences, UC Santa Barbara has launched a new minor in ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). The ...

An El Niño of historic proportion is taking shape in the tropical Pacific. As a result, water temperatures off Santa Barbara climbed into the low 70s Fahrenheit in late August, and anglers have ...

In September 2022, astronomers noticed a perplexing feature on an image of a galaxy around 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. A thin line stretching over 202,000 light-years pointed directly away ...

Researchers from three institutions, including UC Santa Barbara, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the potential to make future visual prostheses, like a bionic eye, more precise, ...

Farmers have dealt with pests since the advent of agriculture. Cats can catch mice, and fences can keep out rabbits. But what do you do when the creature raiding your crops is a six-ton African ...

A study conducted by UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators has found that California has lost more than half of its coastal dune systems. The researchers’ assessment — the first of its kind ...

“The mind is what the brain does,” as the pioneering artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky once said. So it’d be fantastic to understand at what level of anatomy, or complexity, the brain ...

If your community was threatened by a wildfire, would you be able to quickly evacuate? A new study from the UC Santa Barbara reveals that the number of roads out of a community may be one of the ...