As artificial intelligence and advanced computing grow more powerful, so does the energy required to run them. UC Santa Barbara researchers are tackling this challenge from several directions, such as ...

As analysts combed through the results of the 2024 election, something striking caught their attention. They were expecting a significant gender gap, with more women voting Democratic and more men ...

A self-described culinary multitasker, Evan Kleiman has been a chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and today is known most readily as a longtime podcaster and KCRW radio host of “Good Food.” Her ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a method for predicting the likelihood of low birthweights in West Africa, based on climate and socioeconomic data. Their model, when incorporated into ...

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 ...

Nitrogen is one of life’s building blocks, but it’s only helpful in the right amounts. Too much nitrogen in water, for example, can lead to poor water quality and the gradual death of aquatic ...

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 — blood clots of veins or arteries. In many cases, blood clots are a normal part of healing. But these coagulated masses of blood ...

What do the Tsimané of lowland Bolivia have in common with the Hadza of Tanzania? Aside from their mostly nonindustrial lifestyles and the ocean between them for millennia, the two populations have ...

Dynamism defines the coast, which sits in a liminal strip subject to forces from both land and sea. By dint of its prime, beachfront location, UC Santa Barbara must navigate these geographic changes ...

Imagine you’re an infant. Just a few months in the world, trying to gather your faculties, testing gravity — you’re pretty helpless and fully reliant on the people around you. As a result, one of your ...

Giving undergraduate students a new way to explore environmental issues through the humanities, in conversation with the sciences and social sciences, UC Santa Barbara has launched a new minor in ...