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A photo of fossils

Special journal issue looks for new clues about old life

Collection edited by UCR researchers focuses on the role of rising oxygen in the birth of complex life

By Sarah Nightingale | October 22, 2018 | Science / Technology
Rochelle and Allison Campbell Hall

UCR recognizes longtime generosity of Campbell family with building renaming

The University Laboratory Building is being renamed the “Rochelle and Allison Campbell Hall”

By Sarah Nightingale | October 17, 2018 | University
Sponge

Oldest evidence for animals found by UCR researchers

Molecular fossil evidence suggests sponges lived on the ancient ocean floors 100 million years before the Cambrian period

By Sarah Nightingale | October 15, 2018 | Science / Technology
A rainbow trout in the water

Hook injury from catch-and-release can reduce fish feeding

Study shows mouth injuries caused by hook removal reduce feeding performance in suction-feeding fish

By Sarah Nightingale | October 9, 2018 | Science / Technology

Rewriting the textbook on how steroid hormones enter cells

Identification of a transporter that ferries steroids into cells could bring widespread benefits for human health

By Sarah Nightingale | October 4, 2018 | Science / Technology
mosquito

$2.3 million NIH grant will support efforts to stop mosquito-borne diseases 

National Institutes of Health award to UCR’s Naoki Yamanaka recognizes highly innovative research

By Sarah Nightingale | October 2, 2018 | Science / Technology

Physicist to use optical trapping methods to study basic properties of solid-state materials

NSF-funded research represents a new approach to the field of 'crystal engineering'

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 28, 2018 | Science / Technology
Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and Your Food

Book taps into the racier aspects of plant sex

Now that UC Riverside professor Norman Ellstrand has your attention, he’d like to teach you about genetics

By Madeline Adamo | September 27, 2018 | Science / Technology
A picture of pomegranate varieties grown at UCR

Picking the perfect pomegranate

Consumer sensory panel shows several promising alternatives to the industry-standard ‘Wonderful’ pomegranate

By Sarah Nightingale | September 13, 2018 | Science / Technology
A picture of flooded farmland taken by FEMA.

Climate-induced soil changes may cause more erosion and flash flooding

More intensive water cycle could have impact on biodiversity, human health, and water and food security

By Sarah Nightingale | September 12, 2018 | Science / Technology
A photo of California's inland desert region showing wild flowers.

Climate change predicted to bring more extremes to inland southern california

Regional report authored by UCR researchers is included in California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment

By Sarah Nightingale | August 27, 2018 | Science / Technology
Belltower shot

Nobel Laureate Barry Barish joins UC Riverside faculty

Physicist, whose contributions enabled the first observation of gravitational waves, is the university’s second Nobel Prize winner

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 27, 2018 | Science / Technology

Professor receives grant to study how fish hunt

NSF grant will support research on how fish coordinate different body parts to catch prey

By Sarah Nightingale | August 24, 2018 | Science / Technology

Getting high on worms

UC Riverside researchers show that in parasitic worm infection both the host and the worm produce cannabis-like molecules

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 22, 2018 | Science / Technology
Planet Earth, from space.

Early opaque universe linked to galaxy scarcity

Team led by UC Riverside astronomer George Becker used the Subaru telescope to make the discovery

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 14, 2018 | Science / Technology

Scientists honored by American Geophysical Union

Marilyn Fogel and Timothy Lyons will be honored as new fellows during December meeting

By Sarah Nightingale | August 9, 2018 | Science / Technology

Omega centauri unlikely to harbor life

Close encounters between stars in the Milky Way’s largest globular cluster leave little room for habitable planetary systems

By Sarah Nightingale | August 9, 2018 | Science / Technology
a photo of a pea plant that is native to California.

Top-performing soil microbes could be key to sustainable agriculture

UCR research will help agronomists breed plants that attract their own growth-promoting microbes

By Sarah Nightingale | August 7, 2018 | Science / Technology
Mosquito

Researchers to Target Mosquito Egg Production to Curtail Disease

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have received a five-year grant of $2.44 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, to investigate the role hormones play in the female mosquito’s ability to use human blood for egg production. Vector mosquitoes need...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 13, 2018 | Health, Science / Technology

In search of dark matter

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter — constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth. Dark matter — nonluminous material...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 12, 2018 | Science / Technology
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