For “Beyond the Classroom: Special Research Collections,” Director Cathy Williams leads a video tour of the department’s reading rooms and exhibition space, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the ...

Plastic waste travels from inland communities to the ocean through rivers, but new research from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory shows how to stop it at the source. Spanning eight ...

UCSB’s Justin Wilson has developed a new approach to extract rare earth elements from waste. The goal is to make rare earth element recycling financially, logistically and environmentally attractive.

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s highest salinities. The high concentration of salt gives it a correspondingly ...

Scientists uncover why some waterways form single channels, while others divide into many threads, solving a longstanding quandary in the science of rivers.

Metatext: In his latest book, UCSB scholar Benjamin Cohen examines the global and domestic pressures that could push countries, including the U.S., toward breakup.

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 ...

In the race to dominate artificial intelligence, technology companies are fueling an unprecedented expansion of data centers. These digital infrastructures power everything from search engines to ...

📖 Book alert: 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.

Earth emerged from the last ice age around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests the next one could be expected in 10,000 years’ time.

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 ...