UC Irvine chemist Murat Aydin will spend his holiday drilling into the South Pole’s thick ice to collect trapped air that is up to 100 years old.
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Drought, deforestation link fuels climate change
In the rainforests of equatorial Asia, the practice of using fire to clear forests and destroy organic soil increases substantially in dry years, releasing huge amounts of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new international study analyzing six years of weather and fire observations.
Bacteria teach evolution, climate adaptation
How will Earth’s tiniest organisms adapt to climate warming? UC Irvine scientists are consulting bacteria in an effort to find out.
Tackling the looming water crisis
Population growth, climate variations and urbanization have the potential to cause chronic water shortages in a growing number of regions worldwide.
Worldwide care for stuttering
Dr. Gerald Maguire started the world’s first clinic dedicated to the medical care of stuttering, and if patients in faraway places can’t come to his UC Irvine Medical Center office for treatment, he brings it to them.
Teens thrive in digital age
Teens who are into texting, gaming and “geeking out” are not wasting their time, according to results from the most extensive U.S. study on young people and their use of digital media.
Business of research
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.
Dancing with technology
If you can’t make it on “Dancing with the Stars,” try dancing with technology.
Declaring war on malaria
Anthony James knows mosquitoes, and he knows even more about the disease and illness they spread.
Poet, pollster highlight lecture series
UC Irvine’s 10th annual Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Series begins this month with political pollster John Zogby revealing why Americans voted as they did. Leading intellectuals in science and literature will round out the series in 2009.
