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 Serva Energy, a nuclear innovation company, has developed a new production method to ramp up the supply of Actinium-225, a cancer-killing isotope in ultra-high demand.

Scientists have developed a long-lasting battery made with nickel.

The finding promises to help manufacturers move beyond controversial metal

UC Irvine-led mission’s cosmic maps include galaxies, quasars and stars in the Milky Way.

The amount of land scorched by wildfires in Northern and Central California has increased fivefold in the last two decades and nearly all of that increase can be attributed to human-caused climate change. 

 Now, a groundbreaking report titled “Microbes in Models: Integrating Microbes into Earth System Models for Understanding Climate Change,” released by the American Academy of Microbiology, sheds light on a previously overlooked aspect of climate change: microorganisms.

The finding has potential to fundamentally change the nature of these items

Under climate change, moist heat stress is expected to worsen public health outcomes.

UCI Cal-Bridge graduates secure state higher-education faculty positions

Grant program supports research by promising assistant professors

This materials chemist creates atom-thin wires and sheets with exciting electronic and optical properties.

A shocking study of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland by researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has revealed a previously unknown interaction between ice and ocean.