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Jun 03, 2019 |
Heart of Lonesome Galaxy is Brimming with Dark Matter The galaxy, known as Markarian 1216 (abbreviated as Mrk 1216), contains stars that are within 10% the age of the universe — that is, almost as old as the universe itself. Scientists have found that it has gone through a different evolution than typical galaxies, both in terms of its stars and the... |
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Jun 03, 2019 |
Patagonia ice sheets thicker than previously thought, study finds Through a combination of ground observations and airborne gravity and radar sounding methods, the scientists created the most complete ice density map of the area to date and found that some glaciers are as much as a mile (1,600 meters) thick. Their findings were published today in the American... |
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May 22, 2019 |
Atom smasher could be making new particles that are hiding in plain sight Are new particles materializing right under physicists' noses and going unnoticed? The world's great atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could be making long-lived particles that slip through its detectors, some researchers say. Next week, they will gather at the LHC's home, CERN, the... |
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May 17, 2019 |
James Bullock to become new dean of UCI School of Physical Sciences Irvine, Calif., May 17, 2019 – James Bullock, professor and chair of physics & astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, has been appointed dean of the School of Physical Sciences. He will assume the new role on July 1, upon the retirement of Dean Kenneth Janda. “Professor Bullock is... |
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Apr 22, 2019 |
Rate of ice loss from Greenland has grown by a factor of six since the 1980s, scientists find Greenland, home to Earth’s second-largest ice sheet, has lost ice at an accelerating pace in the past several decades — a nearly sixfold increase that could contribute to future sea-level rise, according to a new study based on nearly a half-century of data. The findings, published Monday in the... |
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Apr 18, 2019 |
Ozone depletion, explained Over the past 30 years humans have made progress in stopping damage to the ozone layer by curbing the use of certain chemicals. But more remains to be done to protect and restore the atmospheric shield that sits in the stratosphere about 9 to 18 miles (15 to 30 kilometers) above the Earth's surface... |
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Apr 18, 2019 |
Pop Music, Public Mourning What does it say about our culture, age, and political trajectory that over the years, pop music has gotten increasingly more depressing? A team of mathematicians at the University of California, Irvine, recently analyzed roughly 500,000 pop songs released between 1985 and 2015 to learn what makes... |
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Apr 18, 2019 |
What will climate change do to us? One thing I've noticed over the years as I've written about climate change is that the actual predicted effects of a warmer world often aren't well known. People understand that the planet is getting hotter, a change that is both easy to understand and directly familiar to almost everyone. But the... |
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Apr 17, 2019 |
Clare Yu is named a fellow by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Irvine, Calif., April 17, 2019 — Clare Yu, professor of physics & astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, has been elected a fellow by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The 239th class of inductees includes more than 200 individuals with compelling achievements in academia... |
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Apr 10, 2019 |
Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet UCI was founded in 1965, but what really made people aware of us as a research university was the publication in 1974 of the extraordinary discovery by F. Sherwood Rowland, founding chair of the Department of Chemistry, and Mario J. Molina, his postdoctoral research associate, that... |