University of California Santa Barbara

In a bold but scientifically sound proposal, a NASA-founded research has laid out a roadmap toward spacecrafts with relativistic speeds for the exploration of nearby stars.

Researchers have discovered that giant clams may hold the key to improving solar cells and color displays. The new findings indicate that giant clams produce a white coloration by combining red, green and blue light, in a manner similar to what occurs in television and smartphone displays.​

UC Santa Barbara scientists have replicated the uncanny underwater adhesive capacity of mussels in a versatile and strong synthetic material. The ultra-thin material boasts up to 10 times the effectiveness of prior wet adhesives, and it could soon find use in a variety of sticky situations.

A more palatable way of keeping blood glucose in check for diabetics may be on the way, with scientists developing a patch that attaches to the intestinal wall and releases the hormone after being swallowed in the form of a capsule.

Researchers claim to have constructed the world's first electronic memory cell that effectively mimics the analog process of human memory and may one day lead to the creation of the first bionic brain.

Physicists working at the University of California Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara) claim to have created breakthrough circuitry that continuously self-checks for inaccuracies to maintain the error-free status of the quantum memory and may help accelerate the development of quantum computers.

To prevent any large asteroids from striking Earth in the future, scientists have proposed DE-STAR, a system that harnesses the sun's energy to dissolve wayward space rocks with a vaporizing laser.

A team of UCSB researchers have mimicked the anatomy of a dog's nose to build a highly effective scent detector that could be used to sniff out explosives and narcotics.

UCSB's new general-purpose quantum computer has separate CPU, memory, and programming electronics.

An electromagnetic waveguide placed on diamond crystals can deliver fields strong enough to change the quantum state of electrons in just under one nanosecond, paving the way to faster quantum computing.

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have developed a drug delivery system that can move nanoparticles from the bloodstream directly into tissue.