A sweeping new executive order to deregulate the U.S. seafood sector risks unraveling decades of scientific progress and environmental protections, according to aquaculture and fishery scientists ...

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) award will support UC Santa Barbara researchers in developing the next generation of cyberinfrastructure for multimodal imaging data. Leading the effort is B. S ...

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

UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division has launched a new award to spotlight the vital contributions of postdoctoral scholars, celebrating their excellence in mentorship and leadership. In its inaugural ...

Jason Turowetz's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of multiple areas, including social theory, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, health and medicine, race and ethnicity ...

Students, faculty, staff and community members can help choose the title for UCSB Reads 2026, the 20th edition of the university's award-winning common book program.

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, ...

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

Now, UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor James Kennett and colleagues report the presence of proxies associated with the cosmic airburst distributed over several separate sites in the eastern United ...

Archeological evidence shows that a cosmic airburst initiated a climate change that forced the first shift from foraging to agriculture in prehistoric Syria ...

According to long-standing canon in evolutionary biology, natural selection is cruelly selfish, favoring traits that help promote reproductive success. This usually means that the so-called “force” of ...

Organic farming reduces pesticide use in nearby organic fields, while increasing it in conventional fields. Clustering organic fields may benefit all farmers, reducing pesticide use overall.