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The fight against climate warming has an unexpected ally in mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia…

The first time Fan-Gang Zeng invented a cochlear implant – a device he believed could help thousands regain lost hearing – things didn’t work out too well. The company that licensed his invention shelved the project. “Today, he says, “it benefits no one.” The hard lesson – that most inventions never reach the consumer – […]

Scientists and policymakers generally agree that solving the world’s most challenging social and public health problems – AIDS, climate change, cancer, obesity and global terrorism among them – requires collaboration among researchers across a variety of fields.

Great ShakeOut will simulate quake, identify needs

Sharp increases in the price of jet fuel and growing concerns about sustainability have spurred demand for greener, more efficient aircraft, and UCI researchers could help shape the future of commercial aeronautics.

Experts on everything from reconstructing the human hand to interpreting the U.S. Constitution have joined the UC Irvine faculty in the last year.

Heather Goldsworthy hopes to show that economic development and environmental protection can coexist

Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. It’s one way the body defends itself.

Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine…

Scientific glassblower Jorg Meyer has contributed to chemistry discoveries for more than four decades