If the firm can produce hydrogen at the low price point it’s claiming — reliably enough to attract investors, and without generating noxious byproducts — it would be a big deal, said Jeffrey Reed, a renewable fuels expert at the University of California, Irvine.

“Our thinking is that we’ve reached a point where we can do much better,” said Brett Sanders, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine, who studies flood risks. … Sanders led a multi-institutional study that used the approach to investigate Los Angeles and found that flood risks were vastly underestimated. “Our study showed that the number of people exposed to the 100-year flood was more than 10 times what the (Federal Emergency Management Agency) maps would suggest,” Sanders said.

In a recent study published in Materials Today Bio, an international team of researchers led by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) analyzed how microbes could help future Moon and Mars astronauts in the construction of settlements on those respective celestial bodies.