Arts & Lectures rolls out a free Summer Cinema series of family-friendly films at Santa Barbara’s only drive-in theater.

Researchers will investigate kelp restoration with funds from the California Sea Grant.

The Pollock Theater’s Script to Screen presentation of the post-apocalyptic classic features a Q&A with the screenwriters.

Peer closely enough, and everything begins to look granular. Trees are made largely of quarks. Sunbeams are swarms of photons. Phones run on streams of electrons. Physicists have detected particles of matter, light, and most forces—but no experiment has yet unveiled gravity’s grainy side.

Ever since it emerged from a wet market in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been linked to the wildlife trade. Experts have posited the zoonotic disease is carried by bats and pangolins, but few have followed the transmission any further to find the source of their infection. It may be humanity’s endless assault on the world’s tropical forests.