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The late Carl Sagan got lots of praise for his brilliance in explaining science to the masses, especially on his PBS TV series Cosmos back in the...
It was another successful year for the Physical Sciences Undergraduate Mentoring (PSUM) program. Mentors launched students into graduate schools such...
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Energetic light seen radiating from the center of the Milky Way may be the best evidence yet of dark matter, the invisible stuff thought to be hiding...
Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing possibility that dark-matter particles...
So-called dark matter makes up more than 20 percent of the universe and exists in vast halos around galaxies, including our own.
Superheroes rekindle an interest in science, or rather, Michael Dennin, professor of physics, Physics Astronomy School of Physical Sciences,...
The coming decade will be the decade of dark matter, some scientists say, as efforts to detect the mysterious stuff will either pay off or rule out...
State and federal officials have rightly been accused of tunnel vision in dealing with California's numerous water challenges. Nearly all their...
The American Physical Society has awarded UCI physics & astronomy professor Liu Chen the $10,000 James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics for...
This week Water Currents’ own Jay Famiglietti came to Washington from California to testify before Congress on the importance of supporting research...
Nearly the entire Greenland ice sheet experienced surface melting over just a few days in mid July, an extremely rare event that has not occurred...
The groundwater that is the lifeblood of many Central Valley farms is imperiled if farmers continue to use it at current levels, according to new...