As the theater faculty at fictional Riverbottom College brainstorm ways to shore up their department’s faltering budget, some interesting proposals emerge. These include issuing a departmental meme coin, creating a faculty boudoir calendar, and selling blood plasma. “You get $85 for plasma if you’re over 175 pounds,” says Burt (...

IPV affects college students at high rates, with Latina students being at heightened risk

UC Riverside study urges e-cigarette users to be cautious about vaping in the era of COVID-19

Researchers conducted focus groups of UC Riverside faculty, staff, and students

When two similar atomic layers with mismatching lattice constants — the constant distance between a layer’s unit cells — and/or orientation are stacked together, the resulting bilayer can exhibit a moiré pattern and form a moiré superlattice. Moiré patterns are interference patterns that typically arise when one object with a...

Policy has limited impact on vaccine uptake because of individual decision making, study finds

UC Riverside mouse study will identify mechanisms the gene PTPN2 uses to affect gut cells

An international research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has observed light emission from a new type of transition between electronic valleys, known as intervalley transmissions. The research provides a new way to read out valley information, potentially leading to new types of devices. Current semiconductor...

UC Riverside mouse study provides insights into how pathological fear memory in PTSD could be suppressed

XMM-2599 lived fast and died young, says UC Riverside-led international team

UC Riverside and City of Hope awarded Department of Defense grants for the collaborative project

UC Riverside study analyzed six popular e-cigarette tanks and their atomizers

UC Riverside-led team identifies dark trions as the next carrier of quantum information

A research team at the University of California, Riverside, has found that electronic cigarettes, often targeted to youth and pregnant women, produce a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain. Present throughout life, stem cells become specialized cells with more specific functions, such as...

For some distant worlds, carbon monoxide may actually be compatible with a robust microbial biosphere

Research highlights differences in risk among Asian American women who immigrated versus their U.S.-born counterparts

UC Riverside astronomers develop educational workshop converting astronomical phenomena into vibrations that can be felt rather than heard

Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices, or APM, is a widely used standardized test to measure reasoning ability, often administered to undergraduate students. One drawback, however, is that the test, which has been in use for about 80 years, takes 40 to 60 minutes to complete. Another is that the test kit...

Consumer sensory panel shows several promising alternatives to the industry-standard ‘Wonderful’ pomegranate

UCR study shows how intensive pesticide use is driving mosquito evolution at the genetic level