Researchers Anindya Ganguly, Manali Dey, and Anupama Dahanukar find in a study performed on flies that what you eat influences your taste for what you might want to eat next.
Assistant Professor of Music Xóchitl Chávez talks to Southern California New Group Columnist David Allen regarding Mexican singer Vincente Fernández's death and his "cross-cultural and cross-generational" influence.
Ming Liu and Ruoxue Yan, associate professors in the Bourns College of Engineering, developed a unique imaging technology that will help scientists see nanomaterials in enough detail to make them more useful in electronics and other applications.
To track precisely how much the warehouse boom has impacted air pollution, non-profit organizations in the area as well as researchers from UC Riverside, have been fitting residents with wearable air quality trackers.
Patricia Cardoso, UCR theater and film professor, speaks about the long overdue recognition both she and her film "Real Women Have Curves” are getting from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Eric James Allen, assistant professor of accounting, discusses the benefits of giving away stocks directly rather than selling appreciated investments.
Biomedical scientist Changcheng Zhou led a study linking cardiovascular disease in humans to plastics. The study was published as environmental groups file suit, asking the Food and Drug Administration to eliminate phthalates from plastic food packaging and processing materials.
Chemists Zheiwei Li and Yadong Yin created a prototype of a sunlight-powered robot that may one day be able to swim across marine oil spills, soaking up oil as it goes.
Entomologist Mark Hoddle avocado says the avocado lace bug appears to be more aggressive in tropical climates like Hawaii, and causes more damage in humid conditions than it does at cooler temperatures.
Changcheng Zhou, a UCR biomedical scientist, led a team of researchers who discovered that exposure to dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCHP), a chemical used in plastics, may increase consumers’ risk of developing high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.
By studying the different forms that a protein called tau can take, chemistry professor Ryan Julian discovered the difference between people who developed dementia and those who didn’t.
UCR purchased a controlled environment automated farm that can eliminate pesticides, harmful chemicals and pathogenic contamination. Researchers like Juan Pablo Giraldo could take advantage of it to study whether food can contain the same mRNA as vaccines.
The Director of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts, Tod Goldberg writes about Jewish stories his grandfather told him, and his quest for long-standing questions that in essence serve as a spiritual journey.
Entomologists Quinn McFrederick and Jessica Maccaro examined the microbiomes of unusual meat-eating bees, and found their guts look like those belonging to hyenas and other carrion feeders.
Entomologists Quinn McFrederick and Jessica Maccaro discover that unusual meat-eating bees have microbiomes that are very different from the average vegetarian bee.