UCI scientists reveal mechanism of electron charge exchange in molecules
Breakthrough has applications in data storage, energy conversion, quantum computing
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Astronomers from UCI and Texas A&M peer into distant black hole’s ‘sphere of influence’
Astronomers at UCI and Texas A&M University have obtained the most detailed view yet of an inner cold gas disk around a distant supermassive black hole. Studying the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 3258 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array – a powerful radio telescope array in the high desert of northern Chile – the scientists […]
Astronomers find atypically evolved galaxy with tightly packed dark matter at its core
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, UCI astronomers have identified a galaxy with an unexpectedly high amount of dark matter at its core. Descended from a family of galaxies called “red nuggets” that formed relatively soon after the Big Bang but were stalled in their growth about 10 billion years ago, Markarian 1216 has […]
UCI scientists create new class of two-dimensional materials
Fabrication could help unlock new quantum computing and energy technologies
James Bullock to become new dean of UCI School of Physical Sciences
Noted cosmologist is currently chair of Department of Physics & Astronomy
Clare Yu is named a fellow by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Physicist joins 34 other UCI faculty members in the prestigious organization
The UCI Podcast: New episode explores the history of video games, hunt for exoplanets
A new episode of The UCI Podcast featuring interviews with two UCI faculty members is now available. The first segment is a conversation on the history of video games through the lens of LGBTQ theory with Bonnie “Bo” Ruberg, assistant professor of informatics. Ruberg’s new book, Video Games Have Always Been Queer, is on shelves […]
British astrophysicist who discovered pulsars delivers the 2019 Reines Lecture to full house
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and chancellor of Scotland’s University of Dundee, enthralled a capacity audience in the Irvine Barclay Theatre on the UCI campus Tuesday night as she delivered the 2019 Reines Lecture. Bell Burnell, named dame commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007, recounted […]
CERN approves UCI-initiated hunt for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider
FASER detector will seek clues pointing to hidden matter in the universe
Astronomers from UCI, other institutions use new technique to find extrasolar planets
Effectiveness of tool is demonstrated on recent super-Earth discovery at Barnard’s star