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Drought, Heat Waves Worsen West Coast Air Pollution Inequality

A new study led by North Carolina State University researchers found drought and heat waves could make air pollution worse for communities that already have a high pollution burden in California, and deepen pollution inequalities along racial and ethnic lines.

Introducing Organs-On-Chips To The Lymph System

In collaboration with the Texas A&M College of Medicine, a biomedical engineering researcher working to develop a new way to model conditions that impact the lymph system.

Targeted Demand Response Reduces Price Volatility Of Electric Grid

Texas A&M researchers found that reducing the energy load at strategic locations when supply is strained allows for a reduction in cost for the wholesale market.

Engineering Researchers Develop Porous Nanoparticles For Regenerative Medicine

A Texas A&M team's findings could have implications for the treatment of bone regeneration.

Scientists Achieve Most Precise Measure To Date Of W Boson Mass

A Texas A&M physicist serves as co-spokesperson for the CDF collaboration at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where scientists made the finding.

New Methods Could Improve Security Of Two-Factor Authentication Systems

Researchers have designed mechanisms to counter the vulnerabilities in push-notification based systems.

Building A Better Spacesuit

Researchers are working to enhance the current gas-pressurized suits to make them more accommodating for astronauts exploring planetary surfaces.

Why Do We Remember Emotional Events Better?

Columbia Engineering neuroscientists identify a specific neural mechanism in the human brain that tags information with emotional associations for enhanced memory.

MU Researcher Earns Fulbright Grant To Boost Community Engagement Efforts In South Africa

Federally funded award will help MU professor assist disengaged, vulnerable youth in rural, resource-limited areas through community development initiatives.

Rural Educators Find Solutions to Support Multilingual Learners

A new study found a professional development program helped teachers in a rural school district in the Southeast to collaborate and identify innovative solutions to serve multilingual learners, or students learning English as a second language.

Teens with Asthma Face More Bullying

New research from Columbia Nursing shows that rural teens with asthma are more likely to be bullied—and that having more severe symptoms also increases risk.

Neural Networks Could Help Predict Destructive Earthquakes

Machine-learning method could offer a more reliable way to predict deformations in the Earth’s crust

Human Activity Has Degraded More Than a Third of the Remaining Amazon Rain Forest

The Amazon rain forest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed, with more than a third of its remaining area affected by humans, according to a new study in the journal Science.

Neutron-Rich Nuclei Reveal How Heavy Elements Form

Measurements on neutron-rich nuclei help to refine models of how heavy elements came into existence

UCI Scientists Turn A Hydrogen Molecule Into A Quantum Sensor

New technique enables precise measurement of electrostatic properties of materials

The Secret to Preserving Stem Cell Identity Over Time

The mechanism by which stem cells pass on their ability to change into other kinds of cells to the next generation has been uncovered

NSF Supports Research Studying How Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Affects Americans

Roxane Cohen Silver leads UCI team awarded a RAPID grant to begin survey

A Nifty Trick to Help Plants Thrive in Iron-Poor Soils

Efforts to develop fertilizers that help plants gather iron from widespread alkaline soils are set to benefit from insights into molecular structure

Space Telescope Probes Chemistry Around a Newborn Star

The origins of organic molecules that may create suitable ingredients for the birth of life are beginning to be revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

UCI-Led Astronomy Team Finds Evidence Of Galactic Metal Shrouded In Dust

Infrared emissions reveal secrets invisible with optical wavelength observations