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Like a mother cooking for a picky eater, Bryan Xie spent months under the hood in a lab designing a chemical marker that he could feed to a living...
Ara Apkarian hula-hoops his hips, demonstrating the way a single electron moves inside a molecule. The chemistry professor is in his lab at UC Irvine...
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In an effort to better understand nitrogenase—the essential biocatalyst that bacteria use to convert N2 into ammonia—researchers have now solved a...
Math and biomedical engineering professor Qing Nie and biological chemistry professor Xing Dai have been awarded $2 million by the National Science...
Two UCI physical sciences programs - chemical synthesis and mathematics - have received $1.6 million in fellowship funding from the U.S. Department...
UCI chemistry professor Donald Blake will receive the 2013 National Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science & Technology from the...
F. Sherwood (Sherry) Rowland was best known for his ground-breaking work on the impact of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) on stratospheric ozone. Although...
Increased capture of natural gas from oil fields probably accounts for up to 70 percent of the dramatic leveling off seen in atmospheric methane at...
Energetic light seen radiating from the center of the Milky Way may be the best evidence yet of dark matter, the invisible stuff thought to be hiding...
Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing possibility that dark-matter particles...
So-called dark matter makes up more than 20 percent of the universe and exists in vast halos around galaxies, including our own.
Superheroes rekindle an interest in science, or rather, Michael Dennin, professor of physics, Physics Astronomy School of Physical Sciences,...