Physics & Astronomy

The Physics & Astronomy grad student will use the support to study lithium-ion batteries.

LePort once built a particle detector from scratch. Now he’s developing gene therapies for age-related diseases.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration launched a new era in cosmology today with a five-year endeavor to construct the largest three-dimensional map of the universe.

In 2018, astronomers announced that they had discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, our solar system’s second-closest stellar neighbor, but further analysis by an international group of researchers headed by a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine has cast doubt on the finding.

The award recognizes her work as an equity advisor and in organizing events that help faculty succeed.

Mercado’s award ceremony will also honor his slain friend and fellow astrophysicist, José Flores Velázquez.

Professor Sanchez-Yamagishi will use the award to explore materials at atomic scales — and to make room for surprises, too.

Dive into UCI quantum science, and into the realm of the weird 

Bui will further mathematical research that reconstructs high-res pictures.

What is dark matter? It’s a question as alluring as it is perplexing. Just ask Rebecca Riley — or any of the participants in this new Compelling Conversations episode — who recounts what it’s like to…

An interview with UCI’s Professor Huolin Xin, who envisions a future where airplanes are completely electric.

UCI astrophysicist and Ph.D. student Devontae Baxter fell in love with space in a library in Stockbridge, Georgia