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Tycho Elling, a 14-year-old mathematics prodigy, is set to graduate with his bachelor’s degree from UCI next month. Elling began taking classes at UC Irvine at age 11 and will be starting a doctoral program at USC in the fall.

LA Times coverage of UC Irvine Physical Sciences.

Icebergs as large as cities, potentially tens of kilometres wide, once roved the coasts of the UK, according to scientists.

The findings suggest often overlooked dying stars could support life-sustaining exoplanets.

Study uses computer model to predict existence of habitable zones in white dwarf star systems.

An analysis for Nature reveals the studies that appear most in the reference lists of current publications.

The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. 

For years, astronomers have searched for habitable exoplanets around main-sequence stars similar to the Sun. 

Professor Tim Tait of the UC Irvine Department of Physics & Astronomy featured in New Scientist.

NPR's Science Friday covers new cross-disciplinary UC Irvine research.

A bioluminescent tag that can be attached to RNA will enable scientists to track RNA in real time as it moves through the human body.