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Shedding Light on Quantum Photonics

As buzz grows ever louder over the future of quantum, researchers everywhere are working overtime to discover how best to unlock the…

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The Association for Computing Machinery names IEE Professor Tim Sherwood as a 2022 ACM Fellow

Tim Sherwood, a Professor in Computer Science at UCSB, was recently selected as a 2022 ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing…

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6 climate wins from 2022 that are worth celebrating

“This year feels like a breakthrough. After more than thirty years of effort, the U.S. finally passed comprehensive climate legislation…

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The New York Times Publishes Opinion Essay by Professor Leah Stokes

Leah Stokes, the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Political Science department at UCSB recently…

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Researchers Develop a Scaled-up Spintronic Probabilistic Computer

Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Messina, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a…

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Insight and Influence: Clarivate Analytics names 10 scientists and social scientists to its 2022 list of highly cited researchers

Ten UC Santa Barbara researchers have been named among the most influential scientists in the world, according to the 2022 Highly Cited…

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Defiant Energy: How the American electric utility industry pushed climate denial, doubt, and delay

By Leah C. Stokes

Since electricity became mainstream a century and a half ago, burning coal, oil, and fossil gas has…

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Experiments in space will deliver benefits on Earth

By Tamara Dietrich

Another experiment led by Yangying Zhu, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of…

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It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial

The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway.

By Robinson Meyer…

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Will the US finally become a climate leader? with Leah Stokes

While the United States fancies itself a global climate leader, the…

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They used to call California ocean desalination a disaster. But water crisis brings new look

For decades, environmentalists have decried ocean desalination as an ecological disaster, while cost-savvy water managers have thumbed…

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Advocates claim fiber is "greener" than copper or cable

By Sue Marek

Environmentally friendly or sustainable business practices are an integral part of all industries, and the telecom…

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Energizing Africa - Sophisticated models provide a roadmap for Southern Africa's clean energy future.

By Harrison Tasoff

The economy of Southern…

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Discovering the Potential of P-Computers

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has created a crisis in computing and a significant need for more…

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The Probability of Efficiency

Kerem Çamsari, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department, has received a…

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