From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

Continuing the partnership that’s been successful for several years running, UC Santa Barbara is again partnering with students, local agencies and the community to develop rules, regulations, safety ...

Paul Leonardi’s research, teaching and consulting focus on helping companies to create and share knowledge more effectively. He is interested in how implementing new technologies and harnessing the ...

Robert Krut grew up devouring books by Raymond Carver and the Beat Poets, heavily influenced by the short story writer’s sparse prose and the latters’ collective bent toward romantic fearlessness. To ...

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 ...

Have you ever come back from a blissful, disconnected vacation — swearing that you would bring this new, low-tech approach back to your daily life — and a few days later, felt as if the stream of ...

When it comes to raising children in the digital age, one of the worst things a parent can do is give their kid a smartphone and hope for the best. Turns out, same goes for the grownups. That ...

Cranial surgery is tricky business, even under 21st-century conditions (think aseptic environment, specialized surgical instruments and copious amounts of pain medication both during and afterward).

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Decades of exercise research data support the common view that steady workouts over the long haul produce not only physical benefits but also improved brain function. But what about single bursts of ...