Megafires, minority politics and Indigenous wisdom are among wide-ranging yet intertwined topics highlighting an annual speaker series curated and hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center ...

John Martinis explores the physics of superconducting devices, focusing on achieving very low noise and high sensitivity performance. His main focus is to develop a quantum computer based on Josephson ...

Michel Devoret studies experimental condensed matter physics, particularly “quantronics” — the study of mesoscopic electronic systems where the collective degrees of freedom, such as currents and ...

A new research facility at UC Santa Barbara is set to transform the pace and scope of biotechnology. The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB), supported by a ...

Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role in the disappearance of ...

With CO 2 emissions continuing unabated, an increasing number of policymakers, scientists and environmentalists are considering geoengineering to avert a climate catastrophe. Such interventions could ...