As the summer heat bakes the West Coast, the thoughts of many who have lived here for any amount of time will turn naturally to the idea of wildfire. As of writing, California has already experienced ...

Corals aren’t loners. Tiny creatures called coral polyps gather by the hundreds — and sometimes, hundreds of thousands — to create the ecosystems known as coral reefs. These living structures formed ...

Recent work by UC Santa Barbara geographers relied on decades of aerial photographs to record historic sand dune disappearance along the California coast. Turns out, many of the photos supporting the ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.

A study conducted by UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators has found that California has lost more than half of its coastal dune systems. The researchers’ assessment — the first of its kind ...

Quasars are among the brightest, most energetic objects in the universe, powered by supermassive black holes devouring matter at the centers of galaxies. Their extreme luminosity makes them visible ...

Many people say they’d like to change aspects of their personality — to be more outgoing, more patient, or more emotionally resilient. But can traits like these really change? Recent research suggests ...

Urchins emerge to forage on living kelp when they can’t catch kelp scraps, mowing down swaths of the underwater forest Purple sea urchins are munching their way through California’s kelp forests at a ...

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is “fixed” in ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

While Hollywood and Silicon Valley love the limelight, California is an agricultural powerhouse, too. Agricultural products sold in the Golden State totaled $59 billion in 2022. But rising ...

Television in the 1950s is broadly synonymous with bland conformity. Popular programs painted a benign portrait of nuclear families — wholesome, suburban and, of course, white. Newscasts were heavy on ...