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“The thing that we must realize is that actually achieving a zero emissions goal is a little more complicated than the popular thinking understands,” said Jack Brouwer, director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine. Read More

Flooding has emerged as one of the most destructive natural disasters, with damages and disruptions escalating over recent decades due to climate change and urbanisation. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Bristol are emphasising the need to abandon outdated methods of flood hazard mapping, specifically a technique known as “bathtub modelling.” Read More

Mohammad Al Faruque, the director of UCI’s Advanced Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems Lab, led the team which showed that a simple device, such as a smartphone, can capture acoustic signals that carry information about the precise movements of the printer’s nozzle. These recordings can then be used to reverse engineer whatever object is being printed and re-create it somewhere else. Basically, this poses a huge security risk due to how easily detailed and confidential processes can be deciphered using common, everyday gadgets.

The Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC) unveiled its new state-of-the-art metal processing lab at University of California-Irvine on March 3. Researchers, professors, and leading metallurgists from around the country gathered for the grand opening event. Read More

The gondola would be most likely to succeed if the Dodgers, Metrolink and Amtrak work to provide late trains for fans who live outside the city, said Sarah Catz, a research associate at UC Irvine's Institute of Transportation Studies and a founding board member of Metrolink. [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu