UCR’s Shao-Hung Lee, Ph.D., Dong-Hwan Choe, Ph.D., Michael Rust, Ph.D., and Chow-Yang Lee found that sucralose-water solutions were effective in reducing survival of German cockroaches via effects on their gastrointestinal system. A fortunate discovery, because the same research team has also found widespread resistance to many commonly used insecticides among German cockroaches in California.
"No matter where you live you need to be prepared for a damaging earthquake, before the earthquake. And we think the San Andreas fault and many other faults are close to producing large, damaging earthquakes," warns Abhijit Ghosh, associate professor of geophysics at UCR.
In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Recent research by Stephen Kane, a UCR astrophysicist, suggests there is a chance Earth could survive.
Sonja Lyubomirsky, UCR professor of psychology, recommends creating gratitude collages, drawings or a photography collection of things for which you are grateful, if writing isn't for you. "I don't want people to think like, ‘If I don't like gratitude journaling, I'm doomed,’ … because there’s other ways to express gratitude,” she said.
There are more benefits to following a healthy low-fat diet than shedding pounds and dropping a few pant sizes. Now, UCR scientists Frances Sladek, Poonamjot Deol and Jose Martinez-Lomeli have discovered eating less fat could also help protect you against infectious diseases like Covid-19.
Brandon Robinson, chair of UCR's Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, Javania Michelle Webb, a UCR postdoctoral student, and Amy L. Stone, a professor at Trinity University, co-authored a study showing aunts, whether they’re blood relatives or people who have chosen this role, provide significant support to LGBTQ+ youth
John Jennings, professor of media and culture studies at UCR, hopes that society evolves to the point that a member of a minority group can be themselves, and not seen as representing their entire demographic group.
Younger generations, currently known as Generation Z and Generation Alpha, are less tribal in their politics, and Kevin Esterling, a professor of public policy and political science at UCR, hopes their habits herald a future of more cooperation.
Stephen Kane, a UCR astrophysicist, recently modeled what might happen to four planets in a system 57 light-years away when its star becomes a red giant in a billion years. He found that most of the inner planets will be engulfed, but the outermost planet, which has an orbit similar to Venus’, might survive.
Tim Lyons, a UCR geochemist, is working with colleagues in Alaska to understand why once-pristine streams in the state are looking more like industrial wastewater.
According to a study led by UCR microbiologist Hailing Jin, plants use a stealth molecular weapon to attack the cells of gray mold. Using small lipid “bubbles” filled with small RNA and mRNA molecules, the plants can suppress infectious mold cells.
Article highlights a study conducted by Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical & computer engineering at UCR. It revealed astonishing figures: Training GPT-3 in a state-of-the-art US data center could directly consume 700,000 liters of clean freshwater – an amount equivalent to that used for the manufacture of 370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles.
UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox argues that the Inland Empire, featuring UCR's lab facilities and top researchers, is primed to lead the clean energy revolution.
Bodil Cass with the UC riverside Entomology department says the current infestation of the Oriental Fruit Fly (Bactrocera dorsali) in Riverside and San Bernardino counties is both large and serious. These flies lay their eggs in the fruit that is growing in the trees and the maggots eat the fruit before it’s ready to harvest.
Four decades ago, fruit flies threatened to destroy California's agricultural economy. Today, the threat has returned. UCR entomology professor Bodil Cass joins the California Report to discuss statewide quarantines.
Ellen Reese, professor of Society, Environment and Health Equity at UCR and co-author of the book Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation, says the sources of the gifts we purchase deserve more consideration.
Scientists use the term “luxury effect” to refer to the fact that the wealthier and whiter your neighborhood becomes, the likelier your block is to be green. UCR botanists Dion Kucera and Darrel Jenerette authored a new study showing for the first time that effect is declining due to climate change. It is getting hotter faster than plants are able to cool their surroundings.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky describes happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” And there is a set amount of money that a majority of Americans believe can buy them just that, a new study shows.
The mineral-rich stew bubbling thousands of feet beneath the shores of Southern California’s Salton Sea contains enough lithium to make batteries for more than 375 million electric vehicles, according to a long-awaited analysis published Tuesday.
“It’s pretty exciting how much is there,” said Michael McKibben, a geology research professor from UCR who worked on the 371-page report commissioned by the Department of Energy.
UC Riverside professor Nigel Hughes and his former graduate student Shelly Wernette discovered 10 new species of a strange type of marine animal that lived around 490 million years ago.