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(Back) to the moon and beyond: Artemis lifts off

April 24, 2026 by

As Disney’s Buzz Lightyear famously declared, the goal of space travel is “to infinity and beyond.” NASA’s Artemis program is a serious attempt to make this a reality.
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Accelerating into the new year: UCSB Sherwin Group’s groundbreaking physics research

January 15, 2026 by

The physics department at UC Santa Barbara houses its own powerful particle accelerator that accelerates electrons to 99.4% of the speed of light: The Sherwin Group’s ability to produce short and po...
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Built by students, powered by the sun: Engineers Without Borders bring solar-powered table to UCSB

October 30, 2025 by

What started as a packet of old blueprints has now turned into a fully functioning solar-powered table on UC Santa Barbara’s campus — the result of two years of persistence, problem-solving and st...
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A guide to gift card scams

October 30, 2025 by

Rebecca shares strategies for college students to identify gift card scams in their workplaces.
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Conscience computer science: UCSB launches first Embedded Ethics Lab

May 22, 2025 by

Maryam Majedi, an assistant teaching professor in the Computer Science Department at UCSB, is launching the university’s first Embedded Ethics Lab, a project designed to integrate ethical reflection...
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The mission to Mars: Can SpaceX put the U.S. flag on the red planet?

February 13, 2025 by

SpaceX has long set its sights on Mars, and has made the bold promise that they will land humans on Mars in 2029, which will eventually pave the path for chief executive officer Elon Musk’s plans fo...
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TikTok, time is up: to be banned or not to be banned?

January 23, 2025 by

News of the looming nationwide TikTok ban concerned many of TikTok’s 170 million U.S. users. The nationwide ban was set to take place on Jan. 19 unless Tiktok’s Chinese-based parent company, ByteD...
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Simply Stated: What is 3D printing and how is it being used on campus?

December 19, 2024 by

If you have ever taken a peek inside the UC Santa Barbara Makerspace before, you might have seen a cluster of identical machines lined up against a wall, quietly at work creating parts of all shapes a...
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Building futures: a conversation with the co-chair of Los Ingenieros

October 10, 2024 by

Fourth-year chemical engineering student Jessy Gonzalez, co-chair of Los Ingenieros, reflected on his experience being part of a community that uplifts minorities in S.T.E.M.
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The CrowdStrike crisis

July 31, 2024 by

On July 18, 2024, a CrowdStrike update caused the major I.T. outage whose effects were widely felt on the following day, impacting every Microsoft Windows operating system that had the CrowdStrike app...
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Making sure it’s Correkt: a group of UCSB students set out to revolutionize the ethics of AI chatbots

May 16, 2024 by

When second-year computer science major Alexzendor Misra first came to UC Santa Barbara in Fall Quarter 2022, he had no idea an ill-fated encounter with a conspiracy-believing peer would inspire the c...
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UCSB doctoral student named Schmidt Science Fellow, aims to advance pollution monitoring

May 9, 2024 by

UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Satish Kumar was one of 32 early-career scientists from 17 nationalities to be recently chosen as a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow, a prestigious postdoctoral program.
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Methane-measuring satellite takes off from Santa Barbara

April 18, 2024 by

On March 4, SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base one hour away from UC Santa Barbara. On board the rocket was Vandenberg Space Force Base, a satellite capable of mappin...
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UCSB’s iCTF security competition celebrates 20 years

December 31, 2023 by

UC Santa Barbara’s International Capture the Flag (iCTF) hacking competition celebrated its 20th anniversary from Dec. 2-8. UCSB’s Department of Computer Science has hosted the event since 2003 an...
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UCSB professor receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

July 7, 2023 by

Michael Beyeler, the director of UC Santa Barbara’s Bionic Vision Lab and assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was one of 103 people awarded the prestigious National Institutes...
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