West Coast Waters Acidifying Faster Than Rest of World
A new NOAA study examined a century’s worth of Santa Barbara Channel sediment.
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Construction Begins on USS ‘Santa Barbara’
The small, near-shore combat ship is being built for stealth and speed.
Google Goleta Announces Historic Quantum Processor Success
UCSB physicist John Martinis and his team achieve speed ‘supremacy’ over conventional supercomputing.
Plastics Explosion Chokes Santa Barbara Channel
Microplastic pollutants in offshore sediment marks post-WWII era.
Quantum Foundry Lands at UCSB
Industry heavy-hitters collaborate with 23 scientists to tame quantum particles.
Predicting Famine Well Before It Strikes
Prevention is key: A starving population has lasting consequences.
Pentagon Test-Fires Previously Banned Missile from San Nicolas Island
President Trump terminates Reagan-era arms treaty, sparking fears of a new arms race with Russia.
Means to Increase Battery Longevity Discovered at UCSB
Trio of scientists find that hydrogen in sodium-ion batteries breaks the molecular “backbone” and reduces their ability to hold a charge.
Protesters Block Yang’s Giant Telescope
UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang is in the middle of a standoff between native Hawaiians and builders of the Thirty Meter Telescope.
Major Prehistoric Debris Flow Discovered in Montecito
UCSB geologist says the “penultimate event” happened at least a thousand years before last January’s disaster, and that’s reassuring.
