Researchers propose 3D semiconductor architectures using 2D semiconductor materials for better performance and scalability ...

Sameer Pandya’s Our Beautiful Boys (Ballantine, 2025) drops us into the dark heart of suburbia—literally. Four teens enter a cave in Southern California; only three come out unscathed. What unfolds is ...

Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction, mostly due to fishing. While mandated releases are helpful, ...

Beating 19 teams from schools across California, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam, UC Santa Barbara’s Army ROTC Surfrider Battalion won the Ranger Challenge regional competition in February at Fort Hunter ...

From integrated photonics to quantum information science, controlling light with electric fields — known as the electro-optic effect — is essential for applications such as light modulation and ...

There’s no sugar coating to the film, nor a succinct lesson at the end. But it’s important medicine at a time when public ...

Nine years ago, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators faced an intriguing question: Could an urban sandy beach—typically groomed flat and stripped of vegetation—be restored with minimal ...

Where do trees get their water? How does climate change reshape forests? UC Santa Barbara professor Naomi Tague and artist ...