Physical Science

UCI’s Shaul Mukamel elected to National Academy of Sciences

• University of California, Irvine
• April 29, 2015, 8:04 a.m.

– Shaul Mukamel, a UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of chemistry who probes molecular secrets using ultrafast pulses of laser light, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Physical Science

Researchers propose zapping space debris with laser

• University of California, Irvine
• April 23, 2015, 1:31 p.m.

A research team that includes UC Irvine proposes using a laser mounted on the International Space Station to zap threatening space debris.

Physical Science

Roster of UCI researchers

• University of California, Irvine
• April 14, 2015, 8:57 a.m.

Twenty-seven faculty, staff and students from UC Irvine are part of the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS experiment team.

Physical Science

Crash course in physics

• University of California, Irvine
• April 13, 2015, 12:34 p.m.

As revamped Large Hadron Collider fires up to record levels, UCI team prepares to pick through pieces of shattered particles

Physical Science

Gillman invested as UCI’s sixth chancellor

• University of California, Irvine
• March 31, 2015, 5:31 p.m.

He cites innovation, expansion and partnerships as key to further enhancing campus’s excellence, impact and global preeminence

Physical Science

2015 Sloan Research Fellowships go to two UCI chemistry faculty members

• University of California, Irvine
• Feb. 28, 2015, 12:57 p.m.

Physical Science

Tree species influence boreal forest fire behavior and subsequent effects on climate

• University of California, Irvine
• Feb. 2, 2015, 7:55 a.m.

For a better understanding of how forest fires behave and interact with climate, scientists are turning to the trees. A new study out of UC Irvine shows that differences in individual tree species between Eurasia and North America alter the continental patterns of fire – and that blazes burning the hottest actually cool the climate.

Physical Science

UCI gets $2 million from Keck Foundation for photonic microscope

• University of California, Irvine
• Jan. 28, 2015, 12:09 p.m.

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2 million to UC Irvine to develop a photonic “magnetic nanoprobe,” a microscope able to amplify, detect and possibly manipulate the extremely weak optical-frequency magnetic fields in matter.

Physical Science

UCI nuclear fusion pioneer Norman Rostoker dies at 89

• University of California, Irvine
• Jan. 28, 2015, 10:56 a.m.

Clean-energy champion also co-founded Tri Alpha Energy

Physical Science

UCI, fellow chemists find a way to unboil eggs

• University of California, Irvine
• Jan. 23, 2015, 9:03 a.m.

Ability to quickly restore molecular proteins could slash biotechnology costs