Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study led by UCR climatology professor Bob Allen has found.
Adam Jozwiak, a UCR biochemist, led a study showing tomatoes growing on the Galápagos Islands appear to be going back in time by producing the same toxins their ancestors did millions of years ago.
A new study led by molecular biochemist Adam Jozwiak at UCR compares tomatoes from eastern and western islands of the Galápagos — that famous island chain that inspired Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory nearly 200 years ago. They found the tomatoes on the western islands are creating natural pesticide alkaloid molecules similar to eggplant relatives from millions of years ago, seemingly reversing evolution.
UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane explains how the DAVINCI mission to Venus is imperiled by the budget cuts proposed for NASA, and what knowledge will be lost if the mission is cancelled. Hint: there's a lot about Earth's future we may not be able to predict without more info on our twin planet.
A study by UCR’s Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane confirmed the dipole moment of aluminum monochloride, an elusive but important molecule found in ancient galaxies.
If you’re a US researcher, now is the time to establish a plan B, says UCR’s Brandon Brown. The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths.
UCR's Adam Jozwiak leads a team of researchers who argue that despite how controversial it might sound, tomatoes in the Galápagos actually seem to be evolving backwards, not forwards.
UC Riverside professor Kevin Esterling, creator of Prytaneum, talks about an AI-powered webinar platform built to foster inclusive, deliberative public discourse. Inspired by ancient democratic principles, Prytaneum enables real-time audience participation and AI synthesis of diverse viewpoints—reshaping how civic engagement happens online.
But new research, led by UCR's Juan Pablo Giraldo, shows that once nanoparticles -- which are everywhere -- enter a plant cell, they can change in unexpected ways and interfere with the plant’s ability to photosynthesize.
Article highlights the work of Megan Robbins, UCR associate psychology professor, who has demonstrated that women discuss social topics more than men, and that the gossip is often more positive than one might assume.
UCR's Shaolei Ren is a primary source for a Business Insider investigative article on the true cost of the U.S. data center boom, in water, power, pollution, and tax incentives.
The implementation of dairy digesters on farms could reduce methane emissions by approximately 80 percent, according to a study led by UCR climate scientist Francesca Hopkins.
Blanca Peto, UCR entomology doctoral student, observed that bumble bee queens take surprising pauses in their egg-laying cycle — likely as a crucial strategy to preserve their energy and ensure colony survival.
University of California Riverside microbiologist Michael Allen did an experiment with gophers after Mt. St. Helens blew in 1980. The creatures spent one day on ground destroyed by the eruption, and 40 years later, the recovery they initiated was still detectable.
Alfonso Gonzales Toribio, an ethnic studies professor at UCR, who has written about Latino immigrant rights movements, said that right now, immigrants are motivated by pride to wave flags from their homeland at protests.