What does it take to make sense of a world perpetually transformed by political, cultural and technological realignment? Renowned journalist and political thinker Fareed Zakaria tackles that question ...

A new research facility at UC Santa Barbara is set to transform the pace and scope of biotechnology. The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB), supported by a ...

Michel Devoret studies experimental condensed matter physics, particularly “quantronics” — the study of mesoscopic electronic systems where the collective degrees of freedom, such as currents and ...

The trade of totoaba has all the intrigue of a crime thriller. Dollars and drugs change hands as a criminal cartel vies against the government. Communities and endangered species are caught in the ...

Artist Joan Mitchell’s bold, lyrical canvases made her one of the defining voices of Abstract Expressionism — and one of the few women to claim an enduring place in the movement’s history. A century ...

UC Santa Barbara physicists John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Selected for the honor alongside UC Berkeley physicist and former advisor John Clarke, ...

Ryan Stowers’s research explores how cells interact with and are influenced by the mechanical properties of their environment. These properties regulate a variety of biological processes, such as stem ...

In 2020, right when Jane Baude was starting her Ph.D. research at UC Santa Barbara, she learned that a critical component of her experiment — the gel needed to grow and test mammary epithelial cells — ...

Born on an Army base in West Germany and raised across a dozen U.S. states, Todd Grappone grew up never knowing how long he’d stay in one place or how many new friends he would make before his ...

It was rave reviews all around from UC Santa Barbara students at the campus’s inaugural Gaucho Welcome rally, which kicked off the new academic year with booming music, spirited cheerleaders and ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum ...