Physical Sciences

Astrophysicist Gregory Benford

Addressing climate change: plants instead of plants?

Rather than an industrial solution to excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, a retired UCI physicist looks to nature

Troubled waters

Two Ph.D. students jump into action to study how oil spills affect critical ocean microorganisms

View of planet Earth

Earth guardians

UCI researchers seek solutions to the many effects of climate change

UCI study: California’s trees are dying, and might not be coming back

Wildfires and climbing temperatures have caused a 6.7 percent decline since 1985

UCI’s 2022-23 Hellman Fellows, from upper left, clockwise: Ariyan Johnson, Katherine Thompson-Peer, Benis Egoh, Xiaoyu Shi, Yanning Shen, Nadia Chernyak and Samar Al-Bulushi.

Seven UCI faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2022-23

Program supports research by assistant professors

UCI researchers find that aspirin alters colorectal cancer evolution

Next up: Does the medication offer protection against other forms of cancer?

UCI scientists observe effects of heat in materials with atomic resolution

Research will benefit design of future electronic and thermoelectric technologies

Human-triggered California wildfires more severe than natural blazes

UCI scientists make the discovery using improved tracking algorithms

Sir David MacMillan, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University

UCI alumnus, Nobel Prize recipient David MacMillan honored as a knight bachelor of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II

“It’s been remarkable, surreal and humbling at the same time to receive this.”

UCI-led astronomy team finds evidence of galactic metal shrouded in dust

Infrared emissions reveal secrets invisible with optical wavelength observations