Gary Horowitz’s research centers on the classical and quantum aspects of gravity under extreme conditions, such as those inside black holes and the big bang — areas where Einstein’s equations break ...

Renowned UC Santa Barbara physicist Gary Horowitz has been honored with the Dirac Medal for his landmark advancements in gravity and string theory, a rare distinction among scientists.

An internationally recognized expert in the sociology of sexualities, culture, and the city, Amin Ghaziani investigates how queer life takes shape and changes form in urban environments, from the ...

Anthropologists find that cranial lesions — used to assess the health of historical populations — are linked to compromised immunity ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...

Scientists have developed a method to automate the precise synthesis of oligosaccharides, opening new doors for biomedical research, including vaccines and diagnostics.

“It’s a national competition that happens every year at the Michigan International Speedway,” said Thomas Yu, who has served as Gaucho Racing’s president for the past year. A subset of the more ...

Liming Zhang aims to develop new techniques for synthesizing a range of different compounds, particularly via catalytic platforms. By developing efficient and selective synthetic processes, he hopes ...

Touchdown airbursts — a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kind — remain somewhat less understood. UC Santa Barbara Earth Science Emeritus ...

“Our study shows that improving access to technology like broadband internet and smartphones, and healthcare technology use like telehealth and health-related social media platforms, can significantly ...

To help keep single-use plastics from Tajiguas Landfill, a pair of undergraduate students in the Environmental Leadership Incubator program have expanded recycling and reuse efforts across campus.

Researchers survey a cohort of 49 isolated young stars and their planet-forming disks, finding that at third of the suns are born tilted with respect to their protoplanetary disks ...