While short-term inflammation is essential to healing infections, chronic inflammation is known to damage organs and accelerate chronic diseases of aging.

Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck revisits The Hapa Project, exploring 25 years of mixed Asian Pacific Islander identity through portraits and personal stories.

Electron-phonon interactions — collisions between charge-carrying electrons and heat-carrying vibrations in the atomic lattice of the material — are considered the primary cause of electrons slowing ...

Artist Kip Fulbeck has exhibited and performed in over 20 countries and throughout the U.S., and has been featured on CNN, MTV, The TODAY Show, The New York Times, Voice of America, and numerous NPR ...

William Nomikos researches how identity and domestic politics shape international intervention using a mix of computational, experimental, econometric, and field methods. His first book, "Local Peace, ...

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 ...

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 ...

UC Santa Barbara media study finds parents’ phone use in front of their kids can have an adverse impact on emotional intelligence ...

Driven to improve and safeguard the health of our oceans through science and technology, Marc and Lynne Benioff have made a gift of $60 million to UC Santa Barbara, one of the world’s most important ...

Researchers uncover surprising origins and complexity behind chiton eyes, shedding light on evolutionary processes.

Geologic and paleontological evidence unearthed in southern Chile supports the theory that a major cosmic impact event occurred approximately 12,800 years ago ...

With today's avocado industry dominated by a single variety, the Hass, concerns grow over their vulnerability to disease and climate change. Could genetic diversity preserved in relict populations aid ...