Scientists Uncover an Additional Threat to Antarctica’s Floating Ice Shelves
Thinning of rift-healing slush is identified as a major cause of iceberg calving events. Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
Thinning of rift-healing slush is identified as a major cause of iceberg calving events. Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…