Although it may be a horrible feeling to experience, for society at large, the tendency toward guilt might have some benefits, new research shows.

Working with fruit flies, researchers have discovered neural pathways that tamp down the pain response.

UC offers some of the most highly-ranked schools and programs across nearly every field imaginable.

UC Santa Barbara is to be the headquarters of a NSF-funded state-of-the-art AI-powered cybersecurity institute.

An exhibition of paintings that draw subject matter from the transatlantic slave trade and Yorùbá myths, originated at UC Santa Barbara, will soon visit Spelman College, an Historically Black College.

Steve Monfort, executive director of the UC Natural Reserve System, shares why biodiversity is the key to our future and how UC’s reserves are its best-kept secret.

Bringing species back — and keeping them away — from the brink.

The future for California's whales is brighter thanks to Whale Safe.

Western snowy plovers are once again nesting at the Coal Oil Point Reserve.

Study finds parents’ phone use in front of their kids can harm emotional intelligence.

A UC Santa Barbara team has made strides in addressing one of the grand challenges of modern science: recording proteins in motion in a lifelike environment.

A new antibiotic cures superbugs without bacterial resistance.