Science & Technology

Levee detonations reduced 2011 flood risk on Mississippi River, UCI-led study finds

Researchers urge greater control of resultant erosion in future scenarios

A crash test dummy for a water polo concussion study

Heading off concussions

Professor James Hicks, director of UCI’s Exercise Medicine & Sport Sciences Initiative, leads novel probe of impact injuries in water polo

Francisco Javier Mendieta Jimenez speaks with UCI students

Shooting for the stars

Mexican Space Agency hopes partnership with UCI will help develop program’s ‘human capital’

World’s challenges demand science itself change – and fast, UCI’s Steve Davis, others say in article

UCI Earth system scientist Steve Davis is among a group of leading scientists who make a case in the journal Science this week that growing global challenges have rendered obsolete sharply segregated research and expertise. The world has little use, and precious little time, for one-subject experts, they argue. Traditional, single-discipline approaches to such crises as air pollution, […]

Overseeing your online afterlife

Jed Brubaker’s graduate research guides Facebook’s new policy on postmortem account stewardship

UCI gets $2 million from Keck Foundation for photonic microscope

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2 million to UC Irvine to develop a photonic “magnetic nanoprobe,” a microscope able to amplify, detect and possibly manipulate the extremely weak optical-frequency magnetic fields in matter.

Brushing up on cybersecurity

With Data Privacy Day this week, campus expert offers timely advice on safeguarding sensitive digital information

UCI, fellow chemists find a way to unboil eggs

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 23, 2015 – UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published today in the journal ChemBioChem. “Yes, we have invented […]

Scientists drill first deep ice core at the South Pole

UCI and fellow researchers map climate history at the bottom of the Earth

Dr. J. Jay Gargus

UCI turning the corner on autism

Center unites multidisciplinary experts in drug discovery effort