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UCSB physicists accept Nobel Prizes in Sweden

UCSB physicists accept Nobel Prizes in Sweden

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators awards to UCSB experimentalists opens the door to new insights and innovations

November 18, 2025

Science + Technology

October 30, 2025

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John Martinis & Michel Devoret

UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 7, 2025

The Current

Artist's rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA's Hubble Telescope

Some young suns are aligned with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted

August 13, 2025

The Current

Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.

Astronomers discover huge dust clouds from violent collisions around nearby star

December 18, 2025

Science + Technology

The MicroBooNE detector being installed at Fermilab

MicroBooNE experiment finds no sign of light sterile neutrinos

December 10, 2025

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Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries

November 25, 2025

Science + Technology

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Alumni Spotlight: Joe D’Anna, UCSB PhD 1996

Physics Newsletter 2024

2024 Physics Newsletter UC Santa Barbara Department of Physics Physics Newsletter 2024

Physics Newsletter 2024
UCSB Physics Annual Newsletter 2023

UCSB Physics Annual Newsletter 2023

Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer

Faculty Spotlight: Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer

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