Svetlana Jitomirskaya wins fellowship to fund yearlong sabbatical
The Simons Foundation awards fellowships to mathematicians and theoretical physicists with remarkabl
Celebrating women in UCI Physical Sciences
In physical sciences, we celebrate #InternationalWomensDay and #WomensHistoryMonth. Here are a few i
Three Academic Senate Awards for Physical Sciences Professors
On February 19, Professors Eric Rignot, Timothy Tait and Jenny Yang all received 2019-2020 Distingui
UCI astronomer and colleagues confirm existence of exoplanet orbiting nearby star
The team’s findings were published recently in The Astronomical Journal. Called G 9-40b,
The Speed King
Weiss, who sits on the scientific advisory board of ULB, from which he plans to launch future compan
Dead monster galaxy found lurking in the distant universe
The galaxy, XMM-2599, existed 12 billion years ago. It rapidly formed a bunch of stars and died, acc
Do Spider-Man, Superman break the laws of physics?
Superman would have known that momentum equals mass times velocity and that Newton’s third law
Greg Weiss Lets Never-ending Curiosity Drive his Research and Commercial Goals
Organic chemistry focuses on the study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions and synt
UCI chemists find fungal shrapnel in the air
In a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, UCI chemists repor
Exoplanet hunting instrument created in part by UCI astronomer makes first observations
UCI astronomer Paul Robertson recently celebrated “first light” for NEID, a new exoplane