Physical Science

UCI scientists receive $8 million to help develop Q fever vaccine

• University of California, Irvine
• March 28, 2016, 9 a.m.

Federally supported effort is aimed at mitigating bioterrorism threat

Physical Science

UCI astrophysicist Asantha Cooray to head NASA group designing future space telescope

• University of California, Irvine
• March 15, 2016, 3:48 p.m.

Physical Science

California gas well blowout caused nation’s largest methane release, study finds

• University of California, Irvine
• Feb. 25, 2016, 12:09 p.m.

UCI chemist and partners also discover elevated levels of harmful pollutants

Physical Science

UCI maps methane leaks across Los Angeles Basin

• University of California, Irvine
• Feb. 24, 2016, 5:35 p.m.

Mobile measurements pinpoint greenhouse gas hot spots

Physical Science

Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley Scientists to Participate in New NASA Space Telescope Project

• Berkeley Lab
• Feb. 18, 2016, 9:16 a.m.

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists will play a role in a new NASA space telescope project exploring dark energy, alien worlds and the evolution of galaxies, galaxy clusters and the large-scale structure of the universe.

Physical Science

UCI’s Trimble attends announcement of LIGO gravitational wave discovery

• University of California, Irvine
• Feb. 17, 2016, 12:51 p.m.

Physical Science

A New Spin on Quantum Computing: Scientists Train Electrons with Microwaves

• Berkeley Lab
• Feb. 15, 2016, 4:17 p.m.

In what may provide a potential path to processing information in a quantum computer, researchers have switched an intrinsic property of electrons from an excited state to a relaxed state on demand using a device that served as a microwave “tuning fork.”

Physical Science

Most Precise Measurement of Energy Range for Particles Produced by Nuclear Reactors Reveals Surprises

• Berkeley Lab
• Feb. 12, 2016, 3:24 p.m.

An international team that includes researchers from Berkeley Lab has captured the most precise—and puzzling—energy measurements yet of ghostly particles called reactor antineutrinos produced at a nuclear power complex in China.

Physical Science

Decade of rising seas slowed by land soaking up extra water, UCI and NASA find

• University of California, Irvine
• Feb. 11, 2016, 11:36 a.m.

Physical Science

New Galaxy-hunting Sky Camera Sees Redder Better

• Berkeley Lab
• Feb. 2, 2016, 8 a.m.

A newly upgraded camera that incorporates light sensors developed at Berkeley Lab is one of the best cameras on the planet for studying outer space at red wavelengths too red for the human eye to see.