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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). The ...

Counting one’s blessings. Journaling. Saying a prayer. Writing a letter of appreciation. We can all intuit that practicing gratitude has positive effects on our lives — generally improving our outlook ...

Stand on the damp sand on a California beach and chances are you’re standing on top of an active earthworks site. Sand hoppers (Megalorchestia spp.), the tiny, shrimp-like creatures commonly found ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of Toronto and Zhejiang University have found that using artificial intelligence-based tools can help some disabled workers improve their performance and ...

The 1990s produced a lot of bad ideas, from grunge fashion to New Coke. But there’s one Leah Stokes particularly dislikes: the notion of a “carbon footprint.” You remember that one. To protect the ...

Economist and demographer Shelly Lundberg, a distinguished professor and Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at UC Santa Barbara, has won the 2026 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor ...

As public opinion sways between the benefits and risks of AI’s rapid rise into everyday life worldwide, UCSB Library’s “AI in Action” speaker series returns this fall with insight from researchers on ...

Shelly Lundberg's research is focused in Labor Economics and the Economics of the Family, and includes both theoretical modeling (of discrimination and inequality and of family decision-making) and ...