For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the universe. For Joseph Farah, a fifth-year graduate student at UC Santa Barbara ...

Human history is brief when measured against the age of the Earth. At UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Tiffany Chung’s mid-career survey exhibition considers human history ...

Humans have endeavored to predict the weather since time immemorial. Far from a mere perk, our ability to accurately forecast has been tied to our very survival. And as meteorology developed into an ...

When Divina Cox was a child, the beaches in her home country of the Bahamas were typically postcard-perfect landscapes of fine white (and sometimes pink) sand at the edge of turquoise waters. But with ...

Jim Casey's research and teaching begin with nineteenth-century Black print culture, literature, and political organizing and extend into the areas of public humanities, digital humanities, archives, ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...

Before you can address a problem, you need to understand its scope. That’s why the United Nations developed the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification System. Aid organizations rely on analyses ...

The thunder of a rifle echoes across the savannah. Antelope scatter as birds of all feathers take to the air. A dull thud signals that the marksman’s shot was true. The horn from the felled rhino will ...

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is “fixed” in ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

You know that assignment, message or email you keep avoiding — the one that lingers in the back of your mind even as you scroll, tidy or “just check one more thing”? New research from UC Santa Barbara ...

In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the young, using the youth to gauge trends and styles, and targeting their ...