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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Alan Murray studies how communities can better understand and respond to local risks and vulnerabilities, like natural disasters. This requires synthesizing knowledge on a number of geographic and ...

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To help keep single-use plastics from Tajiguas Landfill, a pair of undergraduate students in the Environmental Leadership Incubator program have expanded recycling and reuse efforts across campus.

Researchers survey a cohort of 49 isolated young stars and their planet-forming disks, finding that at third of the suns are born tilted with respect to their protoplanetary disks ...

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.