Alexander Cho is a media scholar, digital design researcher, critical theorist, and pop culture geek. His research combines critical race theory, queer theory, design thinking, and ethnography to ...

Researchers have developed a model that captures the nuanced ways that plants manage water stress, and how this affects soil moisture levels.

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.

UC Santa Barbara psychologists Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler developed a curiosity-focused app that helps users build curiosity through small daily actions — offering new insight into how ...

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 ...

A warming atmosphere will soaking up moisture faster than it can be replaced by rising precipitation rates, exacerbating droughts even in places where rainfall remains constant.

Adopting new digital systems to help oceangoing container ships get in line to offload their cargo at busy ports appears to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 16-24%, according to researchers at ...

In 1982 physicist John Hopfield translated this theoretical neuroscience concept into the artificial intelligence realm, with the formulation of the Hopfield network. In doing so, not only did he ...

The world’s largest Raspberry Pi cluster, built by Oracle, has found a new home at UC Santa Barbara for research, teaching and innovation in the Internet of Things.

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 ...

With today's avocado industry dominated by a single variety, the Hass, concerns grow over their vulnerability to disease and climate change. Could genetic diversity preserved in relict populations aid ...

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.