UCR planetary scientists Eddie Schwieterman and Michaela Leung have discovered that the methyl bromide gases emitted by broccoli—one of the most repellent foods known to mankind—could be pivotal in discovering whether life exists on other planets.
Bruce Babcock, UCR professor of public policy, tells CNN that the law might not have given electric car sales the boost backers were looking for. Counterintuitively, a dedicated funding source might have resulted in less state incentive funding for electric vehicles.
Orange County has been a Republican stronghold for nearly a century, but has veered left in recent decades. One force behind that shift is the county's growing share of Asian American voters. Karthick Ramakrishnan, public policy professor, discusses this movement of Asian American voters away from the Republican Party.
A planet orbiting the most common star type in the universe, an M dwarf, is not able to hold onto an atmosphere. The findings don’t bode well for other types of planets orbiting M dwarfs, said Michelle Hill, a UCR planetary scientist and co-author of a study describing the no-atmosphere planet.
Kalina Michalska, assistant professor of psychology at UC Riverside and director of the Kind Lab discusses research showing a person’s ability to socialize worsened during the pandemic. In the case of young adults, the pandemic had a profound effect on their maturation process.
Smoke dust may lead to initiation of inflammation-induced skin diseases like contact dermatitis and psoriasis, according to research led by a team of scientists at UCR.
Astrophysicists Michaela Leung and Eddie Schwieterman led a study indicating a type of gas produced by broccoli and other plants on Earth could indicate life on distant planets as well.
UCR astrophysicist Eddie Schwieterman finds in a new study that laughing gas could be found in the atmosphere of another planet, and if it is found, would likely indicate the presence of a living thing.
Astrophysicist Eddie Schwieterman suggests in a new paper that the same stuff college students huff for a quick high could also be a new indicator for whether or not a planet is habitable.
Edward T. Chang, professor of ethnic studies and founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies, co-authored this piece about Pachappa Camp. The camp, a self-governed California community made for and by Korean Americans, was a mecca for the Korean independence movement and a bulwark against anti-Asian racism in America.
The South American palm weevil poses the biggest threat to the famous coastal palms in Los Angeles, but UCR entomologist Mark Hoddle is doing research to develop methods he hopes will keep the pests at bay.
There’s been a lot of thought put into oxygen and methane as substances that could be signs of life on distant planets. Fewer researchers have seriously considered nitrous oxide as one of those substances, but a team led by UCR astrobiologist Eddie Schwieterman thinks that may be a mistake.
Professor of Medicine Brandon Brown and his family sold their home during the pandemic and purchased a smaller one with significantly more land, hundreds of fruit trees and plants, a flock of chickens, and a group of farm cats. Tending them helped him learn to balance his academic career with other pursuits.
A team of astrobiologists led by UCR's Edward Schwieterman has proposed looking for nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas, as a possible indication of life on distant worlds.
Compiled by UCR’s Center for Social Innovation, a new study found that Latinos, with 2.37 million people, now make up 51.5% of the Inland population. However, uust 11% of Inland Latinos had a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2020 and Inland Latinos were four times as likely as White residents to lack a high school diploma.
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.
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.