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A mountain lion looking down toward the viewer.

On safari at UC Riverside

Wildlife experts explain why you won’t meet mountain lions in the Botanic Gardens

By Holly Ober | February 8, 2021 | University, Science / Technology
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How to burst your bubble: broadening your social media horizons

A computer scientist explains how our online behavior drives us into echo chambers

By Holly Ober | February 3, 2021 | Science / Technology
Images on the far left are original images. Center and right are the same images reconstructed by two different techniques.

Optical pre-processing makes computer vision more robust and energy efficient

Hybrid neural network can reconstruct Arabic or Japanese characters that it hasn’t seen before

By Holly Ober | December 11, 2020 | Science / Technology
A cruise ship on the open sea

Cruise buyers’ counterintuitive response to prices could help the industry rebound post-pandemic

The post-pandemic cruise industry should plan ticket sales to attract loyalists, who book early in advance and are less price sensitive

By Holly Ober | December 8, 2020 | Business
The rusted interior of a water pipe

Common pipe alloy can form cancer-causing chemical in drinking water

Water disinfectant reacts with chromium in iron pipes to form hexavalent chromium

By Holly Ober | December 3, 2020 | Science / Technology
A piece of glass tubing bend like a tuning fork is used to measure dissolution of time release drugs

Simple new testing method aims to improve time-release drugs

Glass tuning-fork-shaped tubing gives accurate, continuous measurements of drug dissolution

By Holly Ober | November 24, 2020 | Science / Technology
Base model for an agricultural robot that will collect leaves and test them for moisture to determine when to irrigate

A robot that tells growers when to water crops is on the way

Researchers are creating an autonomous mobile robot to sample leaves and measure their water potential

By Holly Ober | November 19, 2020 | Science / Technology
Anti-homeless bench with colors of the LGBTQ pride flag from the cover of "Coming Out to the Streets," published by UC Press

“I just don’t think shelters work”

Institutions, not only family rejection, underlie LGBTQ youth homelessness

By Holly Ober | November 17, 2020 | Social Science / Education
Illustration signifying hacked password by Santeri Viinamäki on Wikimedia Commons

SourceFinder software stalks malware in the wild

UC Riverside computer scientists develop tool to locate malware source code repositories

By Holly Ober | November 16, 2020 | Science / Technology
Pirate flag on laptop  screen by Michael Geiger on Unsplash

DNS cache poisoning ready for a comeback

Derandomizing the source port enables attacks that work on all layers of DNS caches

By Holly Ober | November 11, 2020 | Science / Technology
Iron fillings organized around the north and south poles of a magnet

Switching magnetic polarity at record speed

Researchers develop way to use magnetic materials for data storage that is 50 times faster than previous attempts

By Holly Ober | November 10, 2020 | Science / Technology
Trucks parked in front of a warehouse

‘The Cost of Free Shipping’ lifts curtain on Amazon

A new book alleges worker exploitation at Amazon, and shows how communities are resisting it

By Holly Ober | November 3, 2020 | Social Science / Education
A woman MMA fighter

Gender insecurity prompts women MMA fighters to date hypermasculine men

Challenging gender norms in sport can lead to overdoing them in intimate relationships

By Holly Ober | October 19, 2020 | Social Science / Education
A sign with the names of Black people killed by police

Experiencing police violence worsens mental health in distinct ways

Unique effects of police violence create a public health crisis for communities most affected

By Holly Ober | October 13, 2020 | Social Science / Education, Health

UC Riverside receives $7.5 million to improve large-scale networked systems

New Department of Defense Center of Excellence will help develop secure, fully networked command, control, and communications infrastructures

By Holly Ober | October 2, 2020 | Science / Technology
A stream of mezcal making bubbles in a bowl

Making mezcal is an art; science shows us why

Experiments show how bubbles indicate alcohol value

By Holly Ober | September 23, 2020 | Science / Technology
A couple facing away from each other at sunset

Queer lessons for straight couples

Book shows how heterosexuals can learn from LGBT people to have better relationships

By Holly Ober | September 21, 2020 | Social Science / Education
WD1856b, a jupiter-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf star

Newly discovered planet survived the death of its star

Astronomers report what may be the first example of an intact planet closely orbiting a white dwarf

By Holly Ober | September 16, 2020 | Science / Technology
A handgun with bullets by Thomas Def

Pandemic gun-buying binge crosses party lines

A fear for health and safety has driven a record number of American gun sales

By Holly Ober | September 3, 2020 | Social Science / Education
A pit bull dog in a kennel at animal shelter credit Paul Knight

Want to save shelter animals? Fight for social justice

Humane communities would endorse animal-friendly affordable housing, living wages, and recognize the importance of human-animal bonds

By Holly Ober | August 26, 2020 | Social Science / Education
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