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UC Irvine ranked first among U.S. universities under 50 years old – and fifth worldwide – in a report released today by Times Higher Education. It’s...
A dim, lightweight galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way may be the smallest in the known universe, astronomers say.
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The School of Physical Sciences laments the death of William Davidson, who passed away during his sleep in the early hours of December 17, 2012.
The 2012-13 academic year is setting new records for theSchool of Physical Sciences! We have 1309 undergraduate students majoring in the Physical...
UC Irvine’s redwoods sit like forlorn Christmas trees near the campus power plant and the Crawford Hall parking lot. They’re miniatures of Northern...
Physics and Astronomy professor Wilson Ho is the recipient of the 2013 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics from the American Physical Society....
Professor Gregory Weiss has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general...
Professor Andrew Borovik has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general...
Fourteen current and emeritus faculty members from the Department of Mathematics have been elected Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. This...
Microscopic proteins, the building blocks of cells, get stuck in exactly the same way that coffee beans do in a grocery store dispenser, according to...
Isolated stars kicked to the edges of space by violent galaxy mergers may be the cause of mysterious infrared light halos observed across the sky,...
Stars ripped from their home galaxies as they collide with other galaxies can get slung into giant invisible cocoons of dark matter, researchers say...