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chemotherapy drugs for cancer treatment

Implantable piezoelectric polymer improves controlled release of drugs

Repeated tests showed a similar amount of drug release per activation, confirming robust control of release rate

By Holly Ober | May 21, 2021 | Science / Technology
A nanofiber filter that captures 99.9% of coronavirus aerosols

Nanofiber filter captures almost 100% of coronavirus aerosols

The filter could help curb airborne spread of COVID-19 virus

By Holly Ober | May 17, 2021 | Science / Technology
Image of metal nanoparticles formed while in the gas phase and directed by a electromagnetic field

Electromagnetic levitation whips nanomaterials into shape

Electromagnetic field directs shape formed by gas phase metal molecules

By Holly Ober | May 10, 2021 | Science / Technology

$3 million award to create a new field of research in one-dimensional quantum materials

Alexander Balandin’s Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship will help advance quantum materials for electronics and energy conversion

By Holly Ober | May 7, 2021 | Science / Technology
Corn growing in a field

Cleaner water through corn

Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98% of a pollutant from water

By Holly Ober | April 26, 2021 | Science / Technology
A picture of the fires burning in California between Joshua Tree and Los Angeles from above

California’s worst wildfires are helping improve air quality prediction

New method measures and predicts air quality in areas with insufficient monitoring

By Holly Ober | April 21, 2021 | Science / Technology

Picosecond electron transfer in peptides can help energy technologies

Hydrogen bonds reshape peptides to move electrons a million times faster than previously known

By Holly Ober | April 13, 2021 | Science / Technology
DNA model display

Glass nanopore pulls DNA like spaghetti through a needle

The purely electrical technique captures cell-free DNA from the surface of a sample

By Holly Ober | April 5, 2021 | Science / Technology
Bundles of needle-like nanowires

Polymer film protects from electromagnetic radiation, signal interference

The breakthrough combines excellent electromagnetic shielding with ease of manufacture and electrical isolation

By Holly Ober | February 22, 2021 | Science / Technology
Facebook buttons

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
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
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

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 woman's spine

Improving treatment of spinal cord injuries

Osmotic therapy device reduces swelling to prevent secondary injuries in rats

By Holly Ober | August 12, 2020 | Science / Technology
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