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March 12, 2026

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Tiffany Chung stands with her maps

Tiffany Chung’s exhibition at the AD&A Museum maps history within deep geological time

The first comprehensive museum survey of the Vietnamese American artist brings together more than 70 works spanning 25 years of research-driven practice.

 

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A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

UCSB researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics

Doctoral student Joseph Farah finds that magnetars power anomalously bright supernovae, linking stellar astrophysics to general relativity.

 

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Fruit

How farming perennial crops can help us in times of climate change, food insecurity and social division

Professor Liz Carlisle’s new book, “Living Roots,” asserts that relying more on perennial crops can help ease the many difficulties of adapting to a changing climate. 

 

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Dancer on a dark stage

Convergence: into the center

March 12 & 13

A dynamic evening of contemporary dance features premieres by choreographers Seda Aybay, Ashley Lindsey, Monique Meunier and Meredith Ventura, alongside works by Joshua Manculich.

Francisco Fullana, with a violin and Robert Koenig

Francisco Fullana, violin and Robert Koenig, piano

Saturday, March 14

Piano professor Koenig is joined by the Spanish violinist in his Santa Barbara recital debut.

UCSB pitcher throws a baseball

Baseball vs Hawai’i

March 20-22

The Gauchos take on the Rainbow Warriors for three games at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.

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Scientific American • March 11, 2026

The universe’s brightest supernovae are turbocharged by newborn magnetars

“It’s so remote from anything we’ve ever thought of,” says Joseph Farah, a graduate student affiliated with the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and the University of California, Santa Barbara, who led the study. “We know so little about these things.”

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