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Jan 14, 2019 |
Ice loss from Antarctica has sextupled since the 1970s, new research finds Antarctic glaciers have been melting at an accelerating pace over the past four decades thanks to an influx of warm ocean water — a startling new finding that researchers say could mean sea levels are poised to rise more quickly than predicted in coming decades. The Antarctic lost 40 billion... |
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Jan 14, 2019 |
Antarctica ice melt has accelerated by 280% in the last 4 decades (CNN) - A pair of new studies released on Monday share a same ominous message -- that our planet's ice is melting at an alarming rate, which is bad news for global sea levels. According to a study led by Eric Rignot from the University of California at Irvine, which looked at details of ice and... |
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Jan 14, 2019 |
Energy From Fusion In 'A Couple Years,' CEO Says, Commercialization In Five TAE Technologies will bring a fusion-reactor technology to commercialization in the next five years, its CEO announced recently at the University of California, Irvine. "The notion that you hear fusion is another 20 years away, 30 years away, 50 years away—it's not true," said Michl Binderbauer,... |
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Jan 14, 2019 |
UCI/JPL: Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago Irvine, Calif., Monday, Jan. 14, 2019 – Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine, NASA’s Jet Propulsion... |
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Jan 14, 2019 |
Professor emeritus of physics & astronomy receives Heinlein Award for science fiction Gregory Benford, science fiction author and professor emeritus of physics & astronomy at UCI, is the 2019 winner of the Heinlein Award, bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. The award is in recognition of... |
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Dec 11, 2018 |
UCI Physical Sciences professor, Fillmore Freeman, named AAAS Fellow Fillmore Freeman, Professor of Chemistry at UCI, was recently named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society. Freeman is being recognized for his impressive contributions to the fields of computational quantum chemistry,... |
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Dec 11, 2018 |
Six From ESS Named to Global List of Most Influential Researchers Professors Steven Allison, Michael Goulden, Jim Randerson, Eric Rignot, Isabella Velicogna, and Jasper Vrugt have been named to the 2018 list of the world’s most impactful researchers, based on the number of times their published studies have been cited by other researchers over the past decade.... |
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Dec 11, 2018 |
UCI Physical Sciences professor, Zachary Fisk, named AAAS Fellow Zachary Fisk, Professor Emeritus of Physics & Astronomy, was recently named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society. Fisk is being recognized for his work on pioneering scientific discoveries regarding the magnetic and... |
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Dec 10, 2018 |
11 Secrets of Hollywood Science Advisors The work of a Hollywood science advisor can be hard to spot. Rather than shoving science in the audience’s faces, it’s their job to make the world of a movie or TV show feel believable, from the physics of fight scenes to the theories that characters scrawl on the blackboard. Science advisors are... |
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Dec 10, 2018 |
Scientists share the most dangerous things they work with You might expect scientists to encounter hazards out in the field. But laboratories aren’t safe havens either. We asked researchers about the most dangerous things they work with. 1. Liquid Helium ↑ Jenny Ardelean, graduate student in mechanical engineering at Columbia University To study the... |