13+ hour, 30+ min ago  (412+ words) You've probably seen them: Glossy black, mid-sized birds with bright yellow eyes and a brazen attitude. They're grackles, and they live where humans like to be, hoping for handouts, picking through leftover food scraps, foraging and scavenging wherever they can....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (212+ words) A folio is a commitment, on the part of the publisher as well as the purchaser," Gartrell noted, emphasizing the distinct physical presence of these rare volumes compared to other historical materials. Where archives and manuscripts reveal the messiness of…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (249+ words) Three distinguished UC Santa Barbara faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Oceanographer Alice L. Alldredge, astrophysicist Lars Bildsten and engineer Henry T. Yang are among the 252 leaders in academia, the arts, industry, journalism, philanthropy, policy, research…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (172+ words) Established about 25 years ago, The REEF has seen thousands upon thousands of visitors (>250, 000) from near and far ignite and explore their fascination with the marine environment, a fascination that has led directly to careers in the marine sciences for many,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (447+ words) As a public university that's been on the cutting edge of environmental issues for decades, it may come as a surprise that UC Santa Barbara's campus bike shop has been throwing away old tires for nearly as long." That's changing…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (463+ words) Analysis reveals that in the absence of federal regulation, "clean" beauty labels often leave consumers guessing, particularly women of color." As consumers increasingly pivot toward safer, non-toxic personal care routines, the "clean beauty" market has exploded. However, new research from…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (393+ words) The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced physicist David J. Gross, of UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, among the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring scientists whose discoveries are significantly driving growth of human knowledge." The Breakthrough Prizes " popularly…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (194+ words) From classical to quantum cryptography In recent years, researchers have been proposing" and developing many quantum cryptographic primitives " which use quantum mechanical principles as their foundation " with the potential to be used for building secure systems. That's where Ananth and…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (230+ words) A recent meeting hosted by the Center for Multimodal Big Data Science and Healthcare at UCSB marked the launch of the Bis Que Deep Learning (BDL) cyberinfrastructure (CI) project." Incorporating a scalable software infrastructure that enables the use of advanced deep-learning…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (322+ words) Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a debilitating hereditary condition in which fluid-filled sacs form and proliferate in the kidneys. Over time, the painful, growing cysts rob the organs of their function, often leading to dialysis in advanced cases There is…...