UC Riverside's Department of Physics and Astronomy offers a way to peek at distant galaxies from home, one of several ways to take a virtual look into the night sky.
Political science professor Karthick Ramakrishnan weighs in on whether Kamala Harris might sway a crucial group of voters in the presidential election.
Interim Provost Tom Smith makes the argument to the higher education community for allowing safety to lead the discussion on returning to campus in the midst of the pandemic.
Solar systems without Jupiter-like planets may be rife with multiple habitable planets, according to UC Riverside astrobiologist Stephen Kane, in a new Astronomical Journal paper.
We might want to blame Jupiter for the lack of other habitable planets around our own sun, according to a new study led by UC Riverside astrobiologist Stephen Kane.
Andrea Polonijo, medical sociologist, discusses how low-income, Black and Latino Californians are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than high-income and non-Latino whites – and how analyses suggest these gaps are widening.
UC Riverside geneticist Hailing Jin's discovery of a peptide in an obscure Australian fruit has the potential to prevent and treat a disease that destroys citrus trees.
People around the country have been receiving mysterious packets of seeds in the mail. Plant physiologist Milt McGiffen explains why it's a bad idea to put these seeds in the ground.
In the most far-reaching study of its kind, UC Riverside's Daniel Lee discusses teaming with researchers from 62 countries to prove that people experience everyday situations more similarly than previously thought.
Hailing Jin, professor of plant pathology, talks about how she found a treatment for a disease that devastates citrus orchards. It comes from a molecule in the Australian finger lime, sometimes referred to as "vegetarian caviar."
Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy, comments on the rapid development of enormous commercial warehouses in the Inland Empire, the coronavirus risks they pose to workers, and how the Central Valley is poised to experience similar development.
Speaking with EdSource, Emily Engelschall, interim associate vice-chancellor of enrollment services and director of undergraduate admissions, says the number of students who will enroll at UCR in the fall is close to being on track with previous years' numbers.