Alaska's Arctic rivers have a big, orange problem. Excessive amounts of iron are getting into the water and it's killing insects and fish. UCR biogeochemist Tim Lyons was part of a crew that figured out exactly how this is happening, and how to predict where it'll happen next.
UCR psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and her collaborator Harry Reis at the University of Rochester argue feeling loved comes from being truly known — built through radical curiosity, vulnerable sharing and their “sea-saw” model of back-and-forth conversation.
UCR research chemist Kerry Hanson said sunscreens in the U.S. aren't as varied - and arguably not as effective as those in Europe and Asia. That’s because the U.S. FDA regulates sunscreens as a drug and not a cosmetic, meaning stricter rules.
Rachel Wu, a psychology researcher in CHASS, speaks to the rush of pleasure competence brings, in a Vogue magazine article that speaks to the power of mastering new things.
UCR's Fabian Klenner proposes a statistics-based method of searching for extraterrestrial life that is compatible with current technology and space missions.
Scott Pegan, a professor of biomedical sciences at the UC Riverside School of Medicine, said that the Andes strain of hantavirus is not in the same category as measles or SARS-CoV-2 because it is not as contagious, nor is it considered airborne.
According to a new UCR study from UCR's Sushmita Arumugam Amogh and Ysabel Giraldo in the Department of Entomology, fruit flies not only survive in hypergravity conditions, they manage to thrive and reproduce, too.
About the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, Scott Pegan in UCR's School of Medicine says, “If they weren’t on a cruise ship in a small container, then it wouldn’t have supported itself in spreading.”
Miguel Zavala, an associate professor of teaching at UC Riverside, talks about how academic teachings about the farmworkers movement may shift following allegations against labor rights icon Cesar Chavez.
UC Riverside microbiologist Michael Allen set gophers loose on a patch of land destroyed after the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, hoping they would kick up bacteria and fungi. It worked, and the benefits to the land can still be seen more than four decades later.
Sydney Glassman, a microbial ecologist at UCR, uncovers genetic secrets that allow some fungi to thrive in wildfire-ravaged areas when everything else dies off. These secrets could help burned areas recover.
Enrollment was flat this year at most University of California campuses, some of which lack the physical capacity to add students. Others wanted to increase enrollment but missed their targets. UC Riverside, however, was the exception.
“This is not a rainforest. It’s a shrubland like Southern California’s chaparral. But the fact that it’s drawing down CO2, and doing it consistently, is something positive we can measure and verify from space,” King-Fai Li, study co-author and atmospheric physicist at the University of California, Riverside.
About 15% of California households lack access to high-speed internet, according to a report from UC Riverside. Researchers pointed to affordability as one of the biggest barriers to closing the persistent digital divide. Edward Helderop, associate director at UCR’s Center for Geospatial Sciences and report author, comments on the study.
University of California, Riverside plant ecologist Loralee Larios notes she recently observed a bloom she hadn’t expected until mid-March. She said the desert is already experiencing displays of sand verbena and evening primrose, and she predicted California poppies in Antelope Valley soon.
Global warming could eventually bring about a new ice age on Earth, aided by organic carbon buried in the deep ocean, according to a 2025 study whose lead author was UCR geologist Andy Ridgwell.
To feel true happiness, UCR's Sonja Lyubomirsky says people need to build a loving connection with another person. That jumpstarts a cycle of mutual love: you have to show more to get more.