It would be ideal if the U.S could reduce the need for mining by extracting lithium from recycled electric vehicle batteries. However, Michael McKibben, UCR geologist, explained that the recycling process is a complicated proposition in the short run.
Andrew Subica, a health disparities researcher and an associate professor at the School of Medicine, explains that Asian Americans often understand the relationship between mind, body and spirit, offering another way to talk about mental health.
UC Riverside will get $201 million in new state funding after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an Inland lawmaker’s bill. AB 2046 includes money to “increase enrollment, tackle climate change and create health equity in the Central Valley and Inland Empire,” according to a news release from Assembly Member Jose Medina, D-Riverside.
Louie F. Rodriguez, Bank of America Chair of Education Leadership, Policy, and Practice in the School of Education, points out the opportunities that teaching brings every single day to the classroom
Our planet contains an estimated 8.7 million species, but vast swathes of its polar regions are lightly inhabited. “If Jupiter’s position remained the same, but the shape of its orbit changed, it could actually increase this planet’s habitability,” said Pam Vervoort, UCR Earth and planetary scientist and lead author of a new study on Jupiter's movements.
UCR entomologist Ring Cardé and Jan Bello, formerly of UCR and now with pest control company Provivi, have identified the exact chemicals in human skin that allows mosquitoes to locate and land on their victims.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that will bring state investment to the University of California’s two most diverse campuses, Merced and Riverside, with the goal of boosting the state’s inland economy and fighting climate change.
Professor Richard T. Rodríguez is featured in David Allen’s Sunday column. The feature focuses on Rodríguez’s new book, “A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and U.S. Latinidad,” and his weekly DJ show at KUCR.
UCR environmental scientists Emma Aronson and Mia Maltz find that Mexican mangroves are playing a helpful role in fighting climate change because they have been trapping carbon for thousands of years.
UCR Earth and planetary scientists Pam Vervoort and Stephen Kane simulated alternative arrangements of our solar system, finding that when Jupiter's orbit was more flattened — or 'eccentric' — it would cause major changes in our planet's orbit too. And these changes could impact Earth's ability to support life for the better.
David Lo, School of Medicine senior associate dean for research, finds negative health impacts from dust emanating from the shrinking Salton Sea. As hotter temperatures cause more lakes to dry up, people all over the world could face similar problems.
If Jupiter's orbit changes, a new study led by UCR astrophysicists Stephen Kane and Pam Vervoort shows Earth could be more hospitable than it is today.
Yanou Cui, UCR professor of physics and astronomy and Zhong-Zhi Xianyu, assistant professor of physics at Tsinghua University, China, may have found a way to answer a fundamental question. Since matter and antimatter annihilate each other on contact, and both forms of matter existed at the moment of the big bang, why is there a universe made of matter rather than nothing at all?
Jim Baird, head of UC Riverside’s Turfgrass Research & Extension program, has been developing grass that needs 50% less water than most lawns in Southern California, is soft enough to use for recreation, attractive enough for customers to want to buy, and keeps a healthy green tone during the winter, when most other lawns go dormant.
Richard Carpiano, UCR public policy professor and medical sociologist tells KCBS Radio's "Ask an Expert" that the best ways to beat a fall surge of COVID-19 infections are not to get lulled into a false sense that the pandemic is over, and to get an updated booster shot.
A UCR study showed that happy people are more satisfied with their jobs and report having greater autonomy in their duties. Additionally, they perform better than their less happy peers and receive more support from coworkers. These attributes, in turn, can prolong life.
Avocado weevils can destroy entire avocado orchards. A team from UCR, including entomologist Mark Hoddle and insect pheromone expert Jocelyn Millar, are working to create a scent that can be used to disrupt the weevils' mating patterns, and prevent reproduction.