Physics & Astronomy News

Yodh Prize Lecture: Prof. John Learned (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) “The Unique and Peculiar Neutrino”

UC Irvine scientists make breakthrough in quantum materials research

Gopi Mohlabeng is searching for the invisible.

The honor recognizes Abazajian’s research into the nature of dark matter.

Scientific first at CERN facility a preview of upcoming 3-year research campaign.

Dzyaloshinskii's name lives on in the contributions he made to condensed matter physics.

UCI astronomers help gather and study data from more than 30 million galaxies

UCI Podcast: Running for city council as a 24-year-old PhD student

Sobel played a role in discovering the neutrino — a subatomic particle that makes up most of the matter in the universe.

UCI astronomer will be one of the first to conduct research with the world’s premier space telescope

Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates

The Brightest Young Scientific Minds in the World

Noted cosmologist is currently chair of Department of Physics & Astronomy

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell tells a rapt crowd in the Irvine Barclay Theatre about her discovery of pulsars

Professor Tajima Awarded American Physical Society’s 2019 Robert R. Wilson Prize

THE WOMAN WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT THE UNIVERSE

Native American physicist Franklin Dollar blazes trail for others at UCI

Annual award winners are honored for their outstanding research record in their discipline.

Congratulations to UCI Professor Toshiki Tajima who has been elected as foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

UCI team led by I. Krivorotov is one of nine groups to share a new $18 million research grant.

UCI Professor Aaron Barth is the lead author on the study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

UCI Professor Franklin Dollar has been awarded a Sloan fellowship in the field of Physics.

The Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions are fantastic examples of how science and technology have profoundly transformed the world.

UCI is world-renowned leader in experimental particle physics, especially neutrinos.

UCI physicists were honored with the announcement that the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) experiment in Japan and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO)...

A Memorial Symposium is being held August 24th-25th, 2015, to honor Norman Rostoker.

Assistant Professor Sid Parameswaran receives CAREER Award from National Science Foundation.

"Mysterious galactic signal points LHC to dark matter"

Assistant Professor Jun Allard receives CAREER Award from National Science Foundation.

Visit the BBC Horizon website to view episode 10: Dancing in the Dark-The End of Physics?

The foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad to perform research in Germany.

Editors select the honorees based on the quality, number, and timeliness of their reports.

2014 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Their Contributions to Advancing Science.

UCI Professor Jonathan Feng was honored with a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship.

This will be our *VERY LAST* Visitor Night at our current location!

“I have a very vivid memory of our first encounter,” says Toshi Tajima, speaking of Professor Norman Rostoker.

Resonantly Produced 7 keV Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Models and the Properties of Milky Way Satellites

PARTICLE FEVER: Now showing at the University Edwards Regal Cinema in Irvine.

Congratulations to UCI Professor Timothy Tait, who has been Elected a 2013 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow.

The award is conferred by the Senate on those who have made significant contributions to scholarship through distinguished research.

Tiny neutrino that could solve cosmic mystery is observed shifting form.

National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

"For his leadership in the first observation of the rare process of two neutrino double beta decay...

The Foundation announces recipients of the 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships, 126 early-career scientists and scholars who represent the very best that science has to offer.

The School of Physical Sciences laments the death of Professor Myron Bander.

"Between the Nails: a Celebration of the Life of John Rosendahl"

UCI Professor Wilson Ho: Recipient of the APS Prize "Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics"

The School of Physical Sciences mourns the loss of John Rosendahl, Instructional Programs Director in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Rosendahl died in the early morning hours on Saturday. On

Gamma-Ray Glow Hints at Dark Matter in the Center of Our Galaxy.

The UCI team – composed of eight faculty members and many postdoctoral researchers and staff -- joined hundreds of scientists and graduate students from American institutions...

With the death of Douglas L. Mills the world of physics lost a major figure and a dear colleague.

Searches for Dark Matter, SUSY and other exotic particles

UCI Professor Liu Chen, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

A UC Irvine team is braving fierce wind chill on a vast Antarctic ice shelf to capture one of science's most elusive prey: ghostly particles called neutrinos.

Winner: Professor Michael Dennin, UC Irvine OCW, Science from Superheroes to Global Warming.

Physics Professor Timothy Tait appears in the episode of the TV series "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman" titled "Are There More Than Three Dimensions"

The transformation of a ghostly particle called the neutrino could help solve a mystery that has haunted physics for decades: Why so much matter in the universe, and so little antimatter?

The Milky Way galaxy consists of stars, gas and, most abundantly, dark matter, which, by nature, is dark and remains unseen.