Professor Craig Hawker holds up an over-the-counter antioxidant pill. It contains alpha-lipoic acid, which is naturally found in the body and plays a role in human metabolism. Today, Hawker is talking ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Chris Van de Walle, a distinguished professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded the American Physical Society’s 2025 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational ...

BioPACIFIC MIP’s interdisciplinary ecosystem brings together hands-on experimentation, advanced instrumentation and digital infrastructure—supported by renewed NSF funding. LOS ANGELES and SANTA ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. “We ...

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still ...