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

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

A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They’re instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in ...

The largest assessment of groundwater levels around the globe found that aquifers are declining worldwide. But a few success stories highlight that proactive management can reverse these trends.

It’s official: The ketogenic diet proved to be effective at controlling polycystic kidney disease (PKD) in the first randomized controlled clinical trial of ketogenic metabolic therapy for PKD.

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 ...

Despite chitons’ relation to squid, snails and scallops, their eyes aren’t located on their soft bodies. Instead, many of their sensory organs are embedded directly into their segmented shell. “I ...

Shifting our diets to be more sustainable can be a powerful way for each of us to address both climate change and global food insecurity, however making such adjustments at the large scales necessary ...

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.

It’s also a problem UC Santa Barbara researchers Charlie Xiao, Elliot Hawkes and Bolin Liao are hoping to make a dent in. In a paper in the journal Device, the trio present an adaptive tile, which ...

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 ...

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