A new ultrasonic test method can acquire high-resolution shale data in the lab by using new geometries for sample testing with specialized equipment suited for measuring shale formations at reservoir ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

UC Irvine-led team develops new electron microscopy technique that can detect directional dependence of vibrations in solids. Anisotropic phonon propagation governs material properties such as heat ...