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Facing a daunting, digital pile millions of photographs high, how would you find the few images you need? Could you, even? It’s a…

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IEE has released it's quarterly newsletter featuring news and research from November 2017 through January 2018. View the full…

Silicon photonics is revolutionizing optical technologies by enabling scalable manufacturing of densely integrated photonic systems on a…

Squids and octopi exhibit a remarkable ability to adaptively change skin color for camouflage and communication. We recently discovered…

The RACELab in the Computer Science Department at UCSB directed by Professors…

The RACELab in the Computer Science Department at UCSB directed by Professors…

Imagine a roomful of 1,000 students all simultaneously experiencing an augmented reality lecture and demonstration. Or, how about riding…

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The new year is off to a strong start for UC Santa Barbara engineer Shuji Nakamura. The materials professor, who is also the…

Three UC Santa Barbara engineering faculty members have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (…

Most of them have come on foot. Trekking through hills and across rivers from their home country and into Bangladesh, some 600,000…

One of the least energy efficient products in modern history, the incandescent light bulb dating back to the days of Thomas Edison, is…

Interstellar travel, light-driven spacecraft, suspended animation. It sounds like the formula for countless science fiction stories, but…

Inventiveness may be its own reward, but the recognition that sometimes results can be pretty gratifying, too.

Such is the case…

This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the first…