
How to burst your bubble: broadening your social media horizons
A computer scientist explains how our online behavior drives us into echo chambers

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

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

Common pipe alloy can form cancer-causing chemical in drinking water
Water disinfectant reacts with chromium in iron pipes to form hexavalent chromium

Simple new testing method aims to improve time-release drugs
Glass tuning-fork-shaped tubing gives accurate, continuous measurements of drug dissolution

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

SourceFinder software stalks malware in the wild
UC Riverside computer scientists develop tool to locate malware source code repositories

DNS cache poisoning ready for a comeback
Derandomizing the source port enables attacks that work on all layers of DNS caches

Switching magnetic polarity at record speed
Researchers develop way to use magnetic materials for data storage that is 50 times faster than previous attempts

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

Making mezcal is an art; science shows us why
Experiments show how bubbles indicate alcohol value

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