News
UCSB Community Labor Center hosts Worker and Tenant Rights Fair
More than 15 organizations tabled at the Worker and Tenant Rights Fair on Nov. 4 at the Student Resource Building lawn, ...
Julia Sanabria
A week in UC student news
UC buys Half Moon Bay’s Ritz-Carlton, Judge orders immediate release of UC Berkeley student detained by I.C.E., the UC...
Wynne Bendell
Senate debates eliminating recurring student fee reaffirmations
Senate debated a bill that would eliminate the need for students to reaffirm certain lock-in fees on the ballot, prompti...
Elijah Obando
Opinion
Traveling solo can you leave you with so much more than when you left
Salma Maytorena really hopes more students take advantage of studying abroad even if they have doubts!
Salma Maytorena
What happened to romantasy?
Kavya Praveen is not giving up her romantasy novels or her standards.
Kavya Praveen
Halloween Costumes: The Ultimate Relationship Test?
The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing colors and pumpkins are being carved — Halloween is approaching...
Avery Massie
U-Mail: Isla Vista, don’t worry, we will be back
Narineh Madikians
Sports
Gauchos defeat Matadors in regular season finale and claim the No. 3 seed in the Big West Championship
UC Santa Barbara’s men’s soccer team ended their regular season with a win over California State University, Northri...
Izabella Nickerson
UCSB Women’s Soccer falls short of Big West tournament following disappointing final week
UC Santa Barbara Women’s Soccer saw its postseason aspirations come to an end following a difficult final week of ...
Vincent Regalado
UCSB dominates Long Beach State, cruises to 13-8 victory
No. 12 UC Santa Barbara Men’s Water Polo delivered an impressive 13-8 upset over No. 9 University of California, Long ...
Fiona Feng
UCSB Women’s Soccer shut out by Cal Poly in Blue-Green Rivalry
UC Santa Barbara Women’s Soccer suffered a 0-2 defeat against California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo o...
Vincent Regalado
Artsweek
Reel Rock 20 goes from V15 boulders to Patagonia’s frozen peaks
A screening of Reel Rock 20 was shown in UC Santa Barbara’s Isla Vista Theater during an exciting event hosted by the ...
Fiona Feng
Elizabeth Holmes simultaneously reveals nothing and everything in Nathan Fielder’s unnerving documentary “You Can See Everything”
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary explores Elizabeth Holmes’ self-deception and the power of sincerit...
Fiona Feng
“Clayface” is a middling pile of clay
While it is perhaps the strongest DCU project in a post-“Superman” world, “Clayface” suffers from a fair share o...
Tanner Perez
Science & Tech
Simply Stated: What is the IceCube Neutrino Observatory?
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for...
Dylan Bennett
What to expect from this Super El Niño
El Niño events occur every two to seven years and modify or reverse typical wind patterns in the Pacific. Oftentimes, E...
Abigail Ryan
UCSB introduces environmental humanities minor
UC Santa Barbara introduced a new environmental humanities minor this fall which offers undergraduate students the oppor...
Bella Astin
Could quantum mechanics underlie conscious thought?
There may be more to our conscious brain processes than biology can explain and it has been an intriguing and long stand...
Rebecca Raymond
Photo
In Photos | A Legacy of Stone
Presented for its first fall intensive musical, Shrunken Heads Production Company produced showings of A Legacy of Stone...
Shengyu Zhang
Summer at Santa Barbara | In Photos
Daily Nexus Photography
In Photos | Charlie Puth at Santa Barbara Bowl
Singer Charlie Puth brought his “Whatever’s Clever! World Tour” to a packed crowd at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Sat...
Lance Sanchez
In Photos | Trekking through Tequepis Trail
KCSB-FM sends its broadcast signal to a transmitter on Broadcast Peak, where the station’s tower stands alongside othe...
Lance Sanchez
On The Menu
Cloudy with a chance of coffee
In spite of what is to be believed, the consumption of cold beverages does not greatly affect one’s body temperature. ...
Alice Baraona
5 reasons you need to host a potluck
What’s better than good food? Good food with good company. However, eating out is expensive, I can no longer justify s...
Sahasra Hanumiahgari
A glutton for gluten
The other weekend, I had the opportunity to cross not one but two places I’ve been meaning to try off my list. What’...
Francesca Gasparini
La Vista
El poder económico del ‘Mencho’ y lo que su salida propicia
Dejando vilmente atrás al infamo ‘Culiacanazo’ de Sinaloa (aún potente y presente), México se encuentra una vez m...
Janise Fernandez
Ser inmigrante no es un crimen
Ser inmigrante no es un crimen. Lo repito con mucha fuerza porque, a veces, siento que el mundo intenta vernos como crim...
Ana Ramirez
¿Qué forma tiene el universo?
Según Albert Einstein, la relatividad general establece que la gravedad es la forma en que la masa distorsiona el espac...
Azucena Sanchez
Mi vida como estudiante guatemalteca en UCSB
Soy una joven guatemalteca, hija de padres emigrantes, y actualmente estoy en mi tercer año en la Universidad de Califo...
Ana Ramirez
Data
Notetaking patterns at UCSB
The Daily Nexus surveyed 50 UC Santa Barbara students on their note taking habits.
Malia Guy
Diversity, equity and inclusion within the 2025-26 Daily Nexus editorial staff
The Nexus conducted a demographic survey of our editorial board for the 2025-26 academic year to gauge whether the diver...
Kalyssa Chu
Diversity, equity and inclusion within the 2025-26 Daily Nexus content
The Nexus filtered articles through a list of relevant keywords and tracked their frequency per calendar year.
Meher Indoliya
Exploring majors at UCSB with fewer than five students
In Spring Quarter 2026, the UC Santa Barbara Office of Budget & Planning’s enrollment dashboard featured four majors w...
Vivian Simmons