Mark Hoddle, director of UCR’s Center of Invasive Species Research, says a certain beetle has been ruinous to the Cleveland National Forest northeast of San Diego, where dead trees increased the risk of fire, limbs dropping and resulted in the closure of hiking trails and campsites.
Research from UC Riverside psychologist Megan Robbins has established a strong correlation between the frequent use of pronouns like ‘we” and “us” and the quality of romantic relationships.
“After an impressive start to the year, in which the state added jobs at a rate 20% higher than the rest of the nation, we shouldn’t overinterpret a slowdown in one month,” Taner Osman, research manager at the UCR Center for Economic Forecasting, said in an analysis of employment data released last week.
Mathematical biologist Qixuan Wang co-authored a study linking a single protein to the growth – and death – of hair follicles. The work could potentially help speed wound healing or help regrow lost hair.
Kurt Schwabe, professor of environmental economics, says using the most current climate data isn't always the first choice of policymakers and state and federal agencies, because it doesn't look as good for their constituents.
Karthick Ramarkrishnan, dean of the UC Riverside School of Public Policy, said the major political parties and candidates are still waking up to the potential of the Asian American electorate.
Astrophysicist Stephen Kane and his graduate student Zhexing Li conducted a study to learn why Jupiter's rings are so faint and if the gas giant once had thicker rings and somehow lost them.
Mathematician Qixuan Wang helped identify a single protein that seems to control when hair follicles die. Armed with this new information, it might eventually be possible to reverse the process and stimulate hair regrowth.
“Little Miss Stinky,” the rare corpse flower on display at the UC Riverside Botanic Gardens, has bloomed. The endangered tropical flower blooms only once every seven to nine years, sometimes as long as a decade.
A study from the laboratory of Katayoon Dehesh, distinguished professor of molecular biochemistry, shows how plants produce salicylic acid to help them withstand stress. The acid is essentially aspirin, and increasing plants' ability to produce it could help ensure continued food supply as the climate changes.
Astrophysicist Stephen Kane and his doctoral student Zhexing Li determined that Jupiter's gigantic Galilean moons prevent ice from forming big, bright rings.
Molecular biologists Katayoon Dehesh, Jin-Zheng Wang, and Wilhelmina van de Ven studied the stress response in plants and could use their findings to boost crop response to adversity.
Richard Carpiano, professor of public policy, believes Inland officials should confront the latest surge by stressing the advantages of masking up, but stopped short of recommending an Inland Empire mask mandate like the one planned for LA County.
Plant geneticist Hailing Jin discusses the peptide she identified that can protect citrus from greening disease. "Normally, a peptide either has antibacterial activity or they can prime the host to be more immune against a pathogen. Ours is unique that it has both activities," said Jin.
Show highlights Professor Anandasankar Ray, a neuroscientist who studies how insects can detect smells in their environment using different scents that react with their brain.
UC Riverside astrobiologist Eddie Schwieterman helped reconstruct the biological processes in some of the Earth’s earliest life forms, an advance that could help find alien life on other planets with atmospheres similar to those on early Earth.
Adam Godzik, a UCR bioinformatics expert, has co-authored a study showing that drug-resistant coronavirus is already circulating in the general population.