Potentially life-saving medical advances, new insights on gaming addiction and a first-of-its-kind quantum chip were among the many discoveries made by UC Santa Barbara researchers this year. Two of those researchers also collected a Nobel Prize. Take a spin through just a few of the innumerable achievements to come out of UCSB in 2025.
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Matt Perko, with material from © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin
UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
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M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration
Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 billion years ago
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Used with permission from Microsoft
Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q's 2025 conference
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Matt Perko
On its own, Earth would shift toward another ice age in about 10,000 years, scientists say. But humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions may have radically shifted the climates trajectory.
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Matt Perko
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