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.
Deliberately performing random acts of kindness can make you feel happier and less depressed and anxious, according to a series of studies from psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky.
UCR astrobiologist Edward Schweiterman co-authored a study that used machine learning to reconstruct the lives of ancient bacteria. The study could provide clues for finding evidence of bacterial life on other planets whose atmospheres more closely resemble Earth from billions of years ago.
Robert Jinkerson, chemical and environmental engineer, Elizabeth Hann, botany doctoral student, and others at UCR helped create an artificial method of photosynthesis that allows plants to grow entirely in the dark. For some plants, the process is 18 times more efficient than normal photosynthesis.
Geophysics professor David Oglesby says that though places like the city of Desert Hot Springs are awe inspiring and fascinating from a tectonic and geophysical standpoint, the idea that it might be considered an 'energy vortex' isn't rooted in mainstream science.
A UC Riverside-led census of California bumble bees failed to locate several once-common species, including the formerly abundant Western bumble bee, a key pollinator for many wild plants and crops.
A team of UCR researchers led by entomologist Hollis Woodard's laboratory have had a hard time tracking down several native species of bumble bees, a sign that the insects’ population might be struggling in the state.
Richard Carpiano, UCR professor of public policy, says cases are on the rise because people are beginning to shed masks, socializing more and spending more time inside due to summer heat.
Milt McGiffen, UCR professor of botany and plant sciences, plans to test the a product that could help farmers reduce fertilizer use. If it is effective, he'll introduce it in California and the Midwest, where farmers are under pressure to cut their use of fertilizer to reduce runoff into major waterways.