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Why so many kids with autism get expelled from preschool

WBUR |
Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes talks with UCR Distinguished Professor of Education Jan Blacher, the co-author of a new study about high rates of expulsions from preschools for autistic kids.
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AI-Created Images Are So Good Even AI Has Trouble Spotting Some

The Wall Street Journal |
Where and when you see an image should help you determine whether it’s real, says Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of California, Riverside.
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Cockroach Sex is Evolving in Response to Pesticides

Smithsonian Magazine |
German cockroaches “overcome challenges over and over,” said Chow-Yang Lee, a UCR entomologist. “You cannot help but have a lot of respect.”
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Even California’s Sonoran Desert is threatened by climate change

The Mercury News |
New research from UCR ecologists Marko Spasojevic and Tesa Madsen-Hepp shows one of the hottest, driest places in North America is changing in ways that might one day leave stretches of arid land barren.
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California’s desert trees can’t take the heat: study

The Hill |
Tesa Madsen-Hepp, a UCR botanist and Ph.D. student, led research offering evidence that desert ecosystems, long perceived as the most resilient to climate change, may be hitting their limits.
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UC Riverside School of Medicine Accepts Inaugural Class of California Medicine Scholars

The UCR School of Medicine has accepted its first class of California Medicine Scholars. This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education.
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How Southern California researchers are developing the food of the future

Orange County Register |
The OC Register highlights the work that UCR genetics professor Julia Bailey-Serres is doing with the Center for Plant Cell Biology to make staple foods more resilient to climate change.
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Why do some love to exercise? It might be their microbiome.

National Geographic |
Theodore Garland, Jr., a UCR evolutionary biologist, has shown in an ongoing experiment launched in 1993 that some variability in motivation or ability to do hard exercise is related to genetics.