New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

Explore the Yinyang philosophy's iconic symbols and their profound representation of balance in art and nature.

In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

Researchers have determined the age and origin of a massive tree that was found at the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia in what ...

COURT HOUSE – Carfentanil, a synthetic opioid seized in a drug raid in Cape May County in August, has only been linked to one death in the county so far, but its dangers far outweigh its brief history ...

For countless home cooks, the humble hard-boiled egg represents both simplicity and challenge a food so basic yet capable of ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

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A single atom of silver working in synergy with carbon and nitrogen atoms can efficiently convert polluting nitrogenous waste in water from industries such as agriculture and mining into ready-to-use ...