Science & Technology

Crystal Cove State Park’s Pelican Point beach in Newport Beach, California.

UC Irvine Climate Collaboration announces inaugural team project grants

Five interdisciplinary projects address climate resilience, wildfire risk, drought detection and natural infrastructure adaptation

An electric car in a driveway in front of a house.

Vehicle-to-home charging technology launches for the mass market

UC Irvine researchers study systems’ benefits, including lower costs and reduced air pollution

UCI’s Chief Innovation Officer Errol Arkilic. Beall Applied Innovation

A hub of invention

Beall Applied Innovation powers UC Irvine’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurship

Planet and star in deep space. Super-Earth with ocean. Sunrise on a blue Earth-like planet.
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UC Irvine astronomers discover nearby exoplanet in habitable zone

The team found that the surface may have liquid water on its surface – a necessary ingredient for life

UC Irvine researchers invent a bioelectronic-integrated artificial colon for disease studies, drug screening

Closely matching its human counterpart, replica eliminates need for animal testing

Photo of Aileen Anderson, UC Irvine vice chancellor for research
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Research realities in the face of funding restrictions

Vice chancellor Aileen Anderson shares what’s happening now and what’s ahead

Designing materials for next-generation propulsion systems

UC Irvine researchers awarded multidisciplinary $2 million grant investigating materials for rotating detonation engines

Zhongping Chen, UC Irvine professor of biomedical engineering

UC Irvine team receives $3 million NIH award for revolutionary deep tissue imaging

Funding backs four-university research effort to solve perennial issue of light scattering

David Kisailus, UC Irvine professor of materials science and engineering

Stronger national defense through biology

UC Irvine researcher uncovers nature’s blueprints for mighty materials

Engineering professor Peter Burke and grad student Sangjun Noh with the “electronic nose.”

Sniffing out danger

UC Irvine’s electronic nose may transform fields like public safety and environmental protection