UCR bioinformatics graduate student Ryan Bruellman finds that having a dollar story nearby is linked to higher rates of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
UC Riverside's innovative STEAM program is getting younger students excited about everything from insects to artwork, while inspiring them to pursue college and career paths along the way.
Wei Liu in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and his doctoral student Mohima Mimi, find the slowdown of the AMOC in the Atlantic has disturbing implications for California, and the world's climate.
For a long time, scientists have taken one fact for granted: fungi and moss don’t establish symbiotic relationships with each other (moss would be the only major lineage of land plants with that trait). Kian Kelly and Jason Stajich from UCR's Microbiology and Plant Pathology Department authored a new study showing that in fact, they do form relationships.
According to a new paper by philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel of the University of California, Riverside, and Jeremy Pober of the University of Lisbon, if consciousness exists beyond Earth, it could take forms we can’t even imagine, and it might not even inhabit anything we’d recognize as a body.
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.