UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane conducted an experiment to see what would happen if our solar system had an extra planet, a "super-Earth" in between the sizes of Earth and Neptune. The results were mostly disastrous for this planet.
Nicole zur Nieden, a UCR developmental toxicologist, said new approaches could help scientists screen out a greater number of ineffective and unsafe compounds before they ever get to animal trials. That would reduce the number of animal studies researchers need to conduct and the limit the chemicals lab animals are exposed to.
UC Riverside is recognized for efforts to decrease the number of police responses on campus, efforts which come in part from work done in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020.
Asma Jafri, a family physician and chair of UCR's Department of Family Medicine, explains that primary care doctors, generally, have larger workloads but are paid less than specialists, leading to burnout.
UCR earth and planetary scientists Robert Allen and James Gomez warn that rising global temperatures will lead to an increase in air pollution from natural sources.
Mario Sims, social medicine, population and public health professor, says placing blood pressure machines and offering education in barbershops is a step in the right direction.
Edward Chang, professor of ethnic studies, and his students at UCR's Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies, discovered evidence of a long-forgotten settlement of Korean American migrants in Riverside. Now, the Mellon Foundation has given UCR $850,000 to bolster the research and increase awareness of America's first known Koreatown.
New research from UCR environmental scientists Peter Homyak and Johann Püspök suggests nitrogen released by gas-powered machines causes dry soil to let go of carbon & release it back into the atmosphere.
Andrew Gray, an assistant professor of watershed hydrology at UCR, says studies of coffee pods' carbon footprint are important. However, he says many such studies may overlook some of the pods' other potential impacts on the environment through the production of plastic pollution.
David Oglesby, professor of geophysics at UCR, points out that the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria was produced by the same type of geological fault underlying most of California.
“The Widow of Valencia” makes a world premiere at UCR. Southern California News Group spotlighted students and staff as they prepped for the Feb. 16 debut.
Dubbed "the world’s most affable and endearing theoretical particle physicist," UCR's Flip Tanedo joins the Ologies podcast to make sense of the Large Hadron Collider, Higgs bosons, and neutrinos.
Carolyn Sloane, a labor economist at UCR — whose "Rockonomics" class is currently studying the Ticketmaster drama — talks to NPR about what would solve the issues with the ticket sales giant.
David Oglesby, a seismologist and professor of geophysics at UCR, points out the notorious San Andreas fault that crosses most of California, from north to south, is of the strike-slip variety. This is the same variety as the East Anatolian fault that caused this week's massive and deadly Turkish earthquake.
UCR mycologist Sydney Glassman and doctoral student Fabiola Pulido-Chavez co-authored a study of the bacteria and fungi that thrive in the soil after it's been burned by a wildfire. These microbes may be key to reviving the charred land.
Peter Homyak, an environmental sciences professor at UCR, and his former student Johann Püspök of Austria, co-authored a study suggesting pollution from vehicles and power plants might make soil release carbon in Southern California and other similarly dry places – worsening, rather than helping to fight, climate change.
David Oglesby, a UCR geophysicist, explains to Wired that the aftershock risk is greatest right after the main earthquake, but there will still be noticeable aftershocks to Sunday's deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey for years to come.