Anxiety is high over this year’s El Niño. It’s breaking records, and hasn’t even peaked. So how does El Niño work? What might Southern Californians expect? And how can we prepare for a potentially ...

Hundreds of people in the United States die every day from thromboses — a blood clot of a vein or artery. In many cases, blood clots are a normal part of healing. But these coagulated masses of blood ...

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 ...

All nominees and recipients will be honored during the Student Affairs Spring Divisional Meeting on Thursday, May 21, 2026, from 10 to 11 a.m. in Corwin Pavilion. News Bites September 22, 2026 UC ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). The ...

An El Niño of historic proportion is taking shape in the tropical Pacific. As a result, water temperatures off Santa Barbara climbed into the low 70s Fahrenheit in late August, and anglers have ...

Researchers from three institutions, including UC Santa Barbara, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the potential to make future visual prostheses, like a bionic eye, more precise, ...

When the Palisades Fire tore through Los Angeles in January 2025, it didn't only destroy homes. It took the Will Rogers Ranch House — a beloved California landmark — with it. Six months later, the ...

Could taking plant biomass and burying it in the deep, anoxic parts of the ocean be a workable large-scale strategy for carbon sequestration? The concept has been intriguing scientists for years, and ...

Quasars are among the brightest, most energetic objects in the universe, powered by supermassive black holes devouring matter at the centers of galaxies. Their extreme luminosity makes them visible ...

A study conducted by UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators has found that California has lost more than half of its coastal dune systems. The researchers’ assessment — the first of its kind ...

The courtyard of Bren Hall was packed to the gills Friday morning with jubilant grads and their families, friends and faculty. The ceremony was scored with numbers like “Wide Open Spaces” and “Have ...