Tim Lyons, distinguished professor of biogeochemistry, serves as science advisor for this PBS NOVA series on our planet's history, and is featured in the episode "Birth of the sky."
UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox makes the case that it is to higher education’s best advantage to keep advocating for reform rather than abandoning a rankings methodology that has evolved — very slowly in the right direction — over the past 40 years.
In honor of California Clean Air Day, UCR’s R'Garden, Metrolink, and the City of Riverside hosted a painting event on Tuesday, Oct. 3, alongside Riverside muralist Ekaterina Orlovie, who guided participants in creating a colorful scene promoting the outdoors and sustainable ways to get around campus. Orlovie used paint with Photio, a paint additive that helps transform surfaces into air purifying agents.
As any car-chase action movie will tell you, the gasoline used in our vehicles is flammable, explosive stuff. However, scientists working with Michael Zachariah, UCR chemical engineering professor, have created a new combustible fuel which stays safely non-flammable for transport and storage.
UCR scientists are researching the response of roots to flood stress; a key finding is that the roots of rice, a perennial, produce the lipid molecule suberin that helps water reach the shoots and helps oxygen in the shoots reach the roots. Research continues to determine if suberin can help plants combat climate change.
Chemical engineering Professor Michael Zachariah and his colleagues at UCR have invented a new type of "safe" fuel that won't ignite unless an electric current is applied, making it safer than conventional fuels that can ignite from a flame.
The University of California, Riverside's School of Medicine is marking its 10th anniversary with a significant building expansion that will cater to the increasing demand for Inland Empire healthcare professionals.
The Luna UCR, a new, more environmentally friendly avocado that has been 50 years in the making, may dominate American guacamole bowls in the future. The new trees are slender, shorter and have a smaller footprint. Luna trees use less water, a big advantage for a fruit that requires extensive irrigation. They also produce more fruit on less land.
David Lo, a UCR professor of biomedical sciences, led a study last year that determined the Salton Sea itself is responsible for the high incidence of asthma for those who live near it. It found that the contaminants in the sea could be causing lung inflammation in surrounding residents.
Unscientific claims of alien life and far-from-confirmed findings risk undermining the possible moment when life somewhere in the universe is discovered. "There should be a lot of value assigned to that finding," said Eddie Schwieterman, a UCR astrobiologist.
UCR scientists Jiayu Liao and Quanqing Zhang have identified what may be considered as COVID's ultimate weakness: the virus's reliance on essential human proteins to replicate and, subsequently, its ability to make individuals ill.
UCR astrobiologist Eddie Schwieterman and biogeochemistry professor Timothy Lyons discuss the complexity of identifying life on planets around other stars, called exoplanets.
UCR bioengineer Jiayu Liao and analytical chemist Quanqing Zhang have identified how the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 takes advantage of our cellular machinery to replicate and spread in the body, and, importantly, a way to stop it.
Miguel Arratia, a UCR physicist, has therefore proposed using AI to integrate measurements from multiple fundamental physics experiments (and even cosmological observations) so that theoretical physicists can quickly explore, combine and re-use the data in their own work.
Article features the research of Anandasankar Ray, a professor in UCR's Molecular Cell & Systems Biology Department, who has predicted how compounds smell based on which of the approximately 400 human odorant receptors they activate.
AI is very thirsty, according to research from Shaolei Ren, a UCR professor of electrical and computer engineering. His work shows ChatGPT-3 needs to “drink” a 500-milliliter bottle of water for a basic conversation of 20 to 50 inquiries, depending on where the electricity is generated.
David Brady, a UCR public policy professor, told USA TODAY that it is true that there are modest advantages to being in a two-parent family versus a single-parent family. However, he believes that having adequate financial resources is more important than having two parents.
A new kind of avocado — created by UC Riverside researchers — may be appearing in grocery stores in coming years. The Luna UCR avocado will soon be marketed to growers worldwide, though it will be a little longer before you can buy it at the supermarket.
Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a professor in the University of California, Riverside’s Video Computing Group, has trained computers to spot unnatural patterns of pixels in order to spot deepfakes.