The W.M. Keck Foundation has granted $1 million to UC Irvine to build a campus laboratory in which researchers can explore the potential of using the deep ocean’s low-temperature and high-pressure conditions to generate carbon-free power from methane hydrates.
Summer learning and extracurricular activities are crucial to establishing a foundation of excellence in California education.
An avid reader, student and teacher of science fiction, UCI English professor Jonathan Alexander particularly enjoys stories about Mars. In honor of Curiosity, he’s put together a list of his 10 favorites.
Excess of gamma rays could indicate that dark matter particles are annihilating each other in space.
The $10,000 award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics.
UCI physicists have played a key role in the search for the elusive Higgs boson.
Here’s the pitch: A brilliant neuroscientist who can identify psychopaths by studying their brain imaging scans and genetic data makes a startling discovery. After learning there are eight killers among his ancestors — including notorious ax murderer Lizzie Borden, a distant cousin — he finds that he shares their biological predisposition to murder. Mitigating environmental […]
Longtime physics professor Doug Mills has died
His prominence helped attract top-flight economists faculty to a relatively young School of Social Sciences in 1976.
It will enable the professor to take a sabbatical from teaching and service to focus on research in the 2012-13 academic year.