Antarctic Air Samples Reveal 70% Increase in Atmospheric Hydrogen Over the Past 150 Years
Earth system scientists at UCI studied air trapped in compacted layers of Antarctic ice and snow to come up with some answers and a few…
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Drugs Used to Treat COVID-19 Patients Tracked Throughout the Pandemic
Efforts to Treat COVID-19 Patients Chronicled in UC Health Medications Data A record of medicine utilization patterns assembled by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at…
Lightning Strikes Will More Than Double in Arctic As Climate Warms, Driving Increased Wildfires and Warming
University of California, Irvine-led team reports that an increase in lightning will drive both wildfires and warming above Arctic Circle. In 2019, the National Weather…
Engineers Creates New Ultralightweight, Crush-Resistant Tensegrity Metamaterials
Study shows how century-old design principle can be a pathway to overcoming failure. Catastrophic collapse of materials and structures is the inevitable consequence of a…
New Discovery Explains Blood Pressure-Lowering Properties of Green and Black Tea
Study results may lead to new antihypertensive medications. A new study from the University of California, Irvine shows that compounds in both green and black…
Scientists Discover Design Secrets of Nearly Indestructible Insect That Can Survive Being Run Over by a Car
University of California, Irvine materials scientists discover design secrets of nearly indestructible insect. Southern California’s diabolical ironclad beetle has an exoskeleton so tough, it can…
Dark Matter Destruction Ruled Out As Origin of Extra Radiation in Milky Way’s Galactic Center
Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates. The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope of…
New Low-Cost, Accurate COVID-19 Antibody Detection Platform Developed
Portable imager could massively increase testing across nation by end of 2020. A robust, low-cost imaging platform utilizing lab-on-a-chip technology created by University of California,…
Southeast Asia Megadrought: Previously Unknown Mid-Holocene Event Led to Major Changes in Human Settlement
Researchers link end of Green Sahara with Southeast Asia megadrought. Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between…
DARPA Invisible Man: Human Cells Engineered With Squid-Like Transparency
Bioinspired research project a first step toward intrinsically translucent tissue. Octopuses, squids and other sea creatures can perform a disappearing act by using specialized tissues…
Scientists Concerned As Denman Glacier Retreats Both Above and Below the Water Line
Using a combination of satellite sensors, scientists recently found that Denman Glacier has been retreating both above and below the water line. That one glacier…
Finding Effective Face Mask Fabric for DIY Protective Coverings – “Bandanas Useless”
University of California, Irvine team aims to determine best do-it-yourself protective coverings, finding bandanas more or less useless. The air that pours into your lungs…
Greenland Lost 600 Billion Tons of Ice In 2 Months, Enough to Raise Global Sea Levels 2.2mm
UCI, NASA JPL project tracking Earth-sensing satellite turnover yields striking results. During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons of…
“Supernova Feedback” – Milky Way Likely Catapulting Stars Into Its Outer Halo
Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories. University of California, Irvine astronomers and others have…
“Stronger Than Diamonds” Carbon Nanostructure Designed – Reaches Theoretical Limit of Performance
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices – nanometer-sized carbon structures – that are stronger than diamonds as…
Climactic Risk of Global Sea Level Rise as Antarctica’s Denman Glacier Has Retreated Almost 3 Miles
UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feet. East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly…
NASA Satellites Track How Quickly the Poles Are Melting – Greenland Lost 600 Billion Tons of Ice in 2 Months
GRACE, GRACE-FO Satellite Data Track Ice Loss at the Poles Greenland and Antarctica are melting — but how quickly and which areas are most affected?…
Oceanographers Predict Phytoplankton Increase by 2100, Contrary to Common Belief in Environmental Science Community
Machine learning Earth system model projects higher numbers in low-latitude regions. A neural network-driven Earth system model has led University of California, Irvine (UCI) oceanographers…