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LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to…

UC Santa Barbara ranks first among U.S. public universities, third among all U.S. institutions, and seventh worldwide for scientific…

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Each year, the American Energy Society surveys the energy landscape and spotlights the most extraordinary contributions…

When John Bowers, inaugural director of the…

Even as coal power continues its steady decline in the United States, more than a hundred plants still have no retirement plans — a gap…

This month, three UCSB projects received awards from the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE). The IEE’s Research Seed and…

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring the quantum…

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) proudly hosted the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Lecture, featuring Professor Shuji Nakamura, 2014…

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With the continuing federal assaults on science, you might think climate science research has ground to a halt. Fortunately, UCSB…

From fitbits to targeted gene therapy, the age of precision health has dawned. But scientists will need to develop new materials for us…

Entangled photons are at the heart of a variety of different and powerful quantum applications. By…

The network equipment provider has opened a new lab and developed a prototype chip as it fleshes out its quantum networking…

A few years ago, as a demonstration of the power of a relatively simple technology, software giant Oracle built a cluster of 1,050…

Lithium-ion batteries today are nearly ubiquitous, powering everything from cell phones to laptops. Small wonder, then, that scientists…