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As California's toxic Salton Sea shrinks, it's raising health alarms for the surrounding community

CBS News | September 21, 2023
David Lo, a UCR professor of biomedical sciences, led a study last year that determined the Salton Sea itself is responsible for the high incidence of asthma for those who live near it. It found that the contaminants in the sea could be causing lung inflammation in surrounding residents.
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Hyped up alien claims risk undermining future ET discoveries

Axios | September 19, 2023
Unscientific claims of alien life and far-from-confirmed findings risk undermining the possible moment when life somewhere in the universe is discovered. "There should be a lot of value assigned to that finding," said Eddie Schwieterman, a UCR astrobiologist.
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Scientists discover COVID's weakness

MSN / Earth.com | September 16, 2023
UCR scientists Jiayu Liao and Quanqing Zhang have identified what may be considered as COVID's ultimate weakness: the virus's reliance on essential human proteins to replicate and, subsequently, its ability to make individuals ill.
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Alien atmospheres are helping scientists search for life

Axios | September 14, 2023
UCR astrobiologist Eddie Schwieterman and biogeochemistry professor Timothy Lyons discuss the complexity of identifying life on planets around other stars, called exoplanets.
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COVID’s – and other viruses’ – Achilles' heel identified

New Atlas | September 14, 2023
UCR bioengineer Jiayu Liao and analytical chemist Quanqing Zhang have identified how the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 takes advantage of our cellular machinery to replicate and spread in the body, and, importantly, a way to stop it.
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How scientists are using artificial intelligence

The Economist | September 13, 2023
Miguel Arratia, a UCR physicist, has therefore proposed using AI to integrate measurements from multiple fundamental physics experiments (and even cosmological observations) so that theoretical physicists can quickly explore, combine and re-use the data in their own work.
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Artificial Intelligence Can Make Companies Greener, but It Also Guzzles Energy

The Wall Street Journal | September 11, 2023
AI is very thirsty, according to research from Shaolei Ren, a UCR professor of electrical and computer engineering. His work shows ChatGPT-3 needs to “drink” a 500-milliliter bottle of water for a basic conversation of 20 to 50 inquiries, depending on where the electricity is generated. 
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Scientists are trying to teach AI how to smell

Popular Science | September 11, 2023
Article features the research of Anandasankar Ray, a professor in UCR's Molecular Cell & Systems Biology Department, who has predicted how compounds smell based on which of the approximately 400 human odorant receptors they activate.
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