As artificial intelligence reshapes the academic landscape, UC Santa Barbara is providing the tools and training to navigate the technology's far-reaching significance. With recent campuswide rollouts ...

Elephants shape the African savanna. They consume huge amounts of forage, dig for water, topple trees and undoubtedly affect all the animals around them. So, what happens to their outsized presence ...

What do the Tsimané of lowland Bolivia have in common with the Hadza of Tanzania? Aside from their mostly nonindustrial lifestyles and the ocean between them for millennia, the two populations have ...

Giving undergraduate students a new way to explore environmental issues through the humanities, in conversation with the sciences and social sciences, UC Santa Barbara has launched a new minor in ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. Of ...

Researchers from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory (BOSL) and local partners in San Francisco have unveiled new technology in their ongoing efforts to prevent whales and oceangoing ...

UC Santa Barbara physicists John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Selected for the honor alongside UC Berkeley physicist and former advisor John Clarke, ...

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 ...

On faculty at UC Santa Barbara since 1991, Leda Cosmides co-founded and directs the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. Her career focus is in evolutionary psychology, a relatively new approach to ...

With CO 2 emissions continuing unabated, an increasing number of policymakers, scientists and environmentalists are considering geoengineering to avert a climate catastrophe. Such interventions could ...