In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

Known for his media-blending esoteric artwork, Deniz Çağlarcan has won the PRIX CIME 2025 International Electroacoustic Music Competition. “Being selected for the residency is very meaningful to me,” ...

As religion declines in the United States, where are people turning for meaning and purpose? A UC Santa Barbara professor is looking for answers. Religious studies associate professor Joseph Blankholm ...

The University of California Board of Regents approved the acquisition of an off-campus property to serve as the residence for the current and future chancellors of UC Santa Barbara to enable them to ...

Joseph Blankholm's research focuses on the variety among the nonreligious, including atheism and spirituality. His first book, The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, was ...

Romance is a complex affair in humans. There’s personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair.

UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems, opening new possibilities for sensing, precision ...

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 ...

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.

It’s 1999, the 21st century is on the horizon, and California has big plans for marine conservation. New legislation has presented a mandate to establish an ambitious network of marine protected areas ...