Physical Science

Global warming will have us crying in what’s left of our beer

• University of California, Irvine
• Oct. 15, 2018, 8:05 a.m.

UCI, other scientists project sharp declines in barley yields due to climate change

Physical Science

UCI study: Reduced Sierra Nevada snowmelt runoff to threaten California agriculture

• University of California, Irvine
• Oct. 8, 2018, 12:19 p.m.

One-degree rise in global winter temps to cause less high country snow accumulation

Physical Science

Scientists Present New Clues to Cut Through the Mystery of Titan’s Atmospheric Haze

• Berkeley Lab
• Oct. 8, 2018, 8 a.m.

Experiments at Berkeley Lab have helped scientists to zero in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may help to explain the complex molecular compounds that make up the nitrogen-rich haze layer surrounding Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

Physical Science

NSF increases physics, astronomy scholarship funding for underserved Californians

• University of California, Irvine
• Oct. 3, 2018, 12:53 p.m.

UCI expects to double number of graduate students in Cal-Bridge program

Physical Science

UCI scientists push microscopy to sub-molecular resolution

• University of California, Irvine
• Oct. 2, 2018, 9:41 a.m.

Carbon monoxide used to measure electric forces in single chemical compound

Physical Science

UCI named ‘top rising star’ by Nature Index

• University of California, Irvine
• Oct. 1, 2018, noon

Physical Science

Shipping in ice-free Arctic Ocean could have cooling effect on climate, simulations show

• University of California, Irvine
• Sept. 25, 2018, 11:11 a.m.

Physical Science

A Quantum Leap Toward Expanding the Search for Dark Matter

• Berkeley Lab
• Sept. 24, 2018, 10 a.m.

Through a new research program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of High Energy Physics, a consortium of researchers from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will develop sensors that enlist the seemingly weird properties of quantum physics to probe for dark matter particles in new ways, with increased sensitivity, and in uncharted regions.

Physical Science

Berkeley Lab to Push Quantum Information Frontiers With New Programs in Computing, Physics, Materials, and Chemistry

• Berkeley Lab
• Sept. 24, 2018, 10 a.m.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) this week announced support from the Department of Energy that significantly expands Berkeley Lab’s research efforts in quantum information science, an area of research that harnesses the phenomenon of quantum coherence, in which two or more particles are so tightly entangled that a change to one simultaneously affects the other. Quantum information science seeks to utilize this phenomenon to hold, transmit, and process information.

Physical Science

New school of thought

• University of California, Irvine
• Sept. 18, 2018, 11:10 a.m.

First ‘active learning’ building in California to open at UCI