Researchers including UC Riverside environmental scientist Ying-Hsuan Lin found that aged vape aerosols contain fine particles bearing metals and highly reactive compounds that have the potential to damage lung tissues.
Scientists including UCR entomologist Kerry Mauck have created a small-scale system that transforms food waste into high-protein animal feed and fertilizer using black soldier flies, offering a sustainable solution to a major environmental problem.
University of California, Riverside mycologist Sydney Glassman and colleagues have published a study describing how inconspicuous fungi hidden in soil evolved to protect themselves from heat and how they acquired the genes that allow them to munch on charcoal.
UCR bioengineers, professor Xiaoping Hu and doctoral student Amin Ghaffari pinpointed a little-known part of the brain crucial to maintaining strength and vitality as we age.
