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"We call this technology a 'wireless fiber patch cord' because it offers the blistering speed of fiber optics without the physical cables," said Payam Heydari , NCIC Labs director, UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and senior author of both papers. "By operating in the F-band – a frequency range well above current 5G standards – we can offer massive bandwidths that will transform how machines, robots and data centers communicate." Read More

Scientists have recently demonstrated a crop of innovative materials that mimic these biological processes—stretchable, reflective skins, light-refracting color-changing membranes, light-scattering films and fibers, and texture-changing silicon-mesh fabrics with the potential to trick the eye, avoid detection, and seemingly disappear. … Alon Gorodetsky, an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine, who has pioneered numerous cephalopod-inspired camouflage materials, says interest from manufacturers is high and products could begin to reach consumers within the next decade. Read More

A new research grant is looking at the idea of reflooding lowland depressions to alleviate the problem on the coasts, starting with the Qattara Depression, a massive low-lying desert area in western Egypt. Amir AghaKouchak, a professor of environmental and civil engineering at the University of California, Irvine, who focuses on climate extremes and solutions, is carrying out the research under a grant from the ARC Initiative, a climate change fund of the U.S.-based nonprofit Renaissance Philanthropy. AghaKouchak’s work with ARC could be groundbreaking. It is certainly ambitious, and likely to become controversial. Read More

In February, the Chronicle reported that scientists were concerned about how the scores were calculated and the accuracy of the risk measurements. … Brett Sanders, a UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of civil and environmental engineering, said that the current changes reflect broader challenges as property owners confront climate risks and associated costs. “I think we're going to be going through at least a decade or more of these ebbs and flows of how we manage the problem,” Sanders said. Read More