Research

New technique could help authorities conduct triage in multiple-blaze scenarios

Conversational agent will be incorporated into a pilot study on a new PBS KIDS animated program

Climate change expected to accelerate spread of sometimes-fatal fungal infection

UCI engineers have received $1 million from the National Science Foundation to design integrative approaches for measuring real-time brain activity during social interactions in sleep-disrupted animal models. Early-life sleep disruption has been shown to affect the development of complex social behaviors in prairie voles, the studied model, impairing social bonding in a manner similar to […]

Commonplace in both natural and man-made components, glassy materials have a microscopically disordered structure. In many solid substances and crystals, atoms are bonded together in an orderly fashion, like stacked cannonballs, but atoms and molecules in varieties of glass are positioned in an amorphous jumble, as they are in liquids. Penghui Cao, UCI assistant professor […]

Funding continues campus effort to speed scientific discoveries into medical advances

Microorganisms’ reaction to drought could hold clue to surviving climate change

Exposure alone may confer some benefits of bilinguality on single-language speakers

Researchers also find plankton more resilient to nutrient stress than previously thought

Study of 400 teens finds little evidence linking excessive smartphone use and mental health outcomes