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05/22/2013
UCI Chemists Devise Inexpensive, Accurate Way To Detect Prostate Cancer
Early screening for prostate cancer could become as easy for men as personal pregnancy testing is for women, thanks to UC Irvine research published...
05/22/2013
Astronomers Get Rare Look At Ancient Galaxy Collision
Astronomers have caught two big ancient galaxies in the act of colliding, shedding new light on the role such megamergers played in galactic...
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Upcoming Events

06/01/2013 - Kevork Abazajian
Visitor Night at the UCI Observatory
Highlights include Saturn, the globular clusters M3 and M13, and M57, the Ring Nebula.  Lecture: The High­Energy Universe, Dr. Kevork Abazajian (Professor). Visitor Nights are open to the public so feel free to forward this message along to...
07/27/2013 - Manoj Kaplinghat
Visitor Night at the UCI Observatory
Highlights include Saturn, M57, the Ring Nebula, open cluster M11 and M16, the Eagle Nebula and the double star Alberio.  Lecture: The Biggest Lenses in the Universe: Bending of Light by Gravity...
08/11/2013 - Andrew Graus
Visitor Night at the UCI Observatory
The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs on the nights of Aug 11 and 12 as the Earth swings through debris left behind prior passages of Comet 109P/Swift­Tuttle. It is usually the most impressive...