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Enduring gut-churning flights in quest for Arctic climate data

UCR Professor Markus Petters and two grad students are spending more than a month with an international research team that’s making bumpy flights from northern Sweden to the Arctic Ocean to collect data needed to better understand climate change.

By David Danelski | March 6, 2024 | Science / Technology
carbon circularity

Strategy unveiled to achieve carbon-neutral air travel

UCR scientists unveil a path toward carbon-neutral air travel that lies in fostering development of e-kerosene, a type of sustainable aviation fuel made by combining captured carbon dioxide with hydrogen.

By David Danelski | February 26, 2024 | Science / Technology
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Q&A: What can be done about the proliferation of deepfakes?

Q&A forum: UC Riverside computer science and public policy experts discuss the proliferation of malicious deepfake content in public discourse.

By David Danelski | February 22, 2024 | Science / Technology, Experts
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Method identified to double computer processing speeds

UCR computer scientists identify method identified to double computer processing speed using existing hardware

By David Danelski | February 21, 2024 | Science / Technology
Computer haking

UCR outs security flaw in AI query models

UC Riverside computer scientists have identified a security flaw in vision language artificial intelligence (AI) models that can allow bad actors to use AI for nefarious purposes, such as obtaining instructions on how to make bomb. When integrated with models like Google Bard and Chat GPT, vision language models allow...

By David Danelski | January 9, 2024 | Science / Technology
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Grant powers regional lithium mining hub as shortage looms

Those working to establish a sustainable lithium mining industry in Southern California have gotten a surge of support with a new grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

By Jules Bernstein | November 7, 2023 | Science / Technology
 video games

How video games could unlock new treatments for Parkinson’s 

A $5 million NIH grant is adding an ‘extra life’ to Parkinson’s research, with patients playing video games during brain surgery to help researchers understand better how the brain regulates movement.

By Jules Bernstein | October 10, 2023 | Science / Technology
Thai coal plant

Two-dimensional compounds can capture carbon from the air

Some of the thinnest materials known to mankind can be engineered to capture carbon dioxide from the air.

By David Danelski | October 4, 2023 | Science / Technology
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Faculty members discuss AI’s possible impacts at UCR

UCR faculty members from different disciplines discuss how artificial intelligence or AI is expected to create a paradigm shift in higher education instruction.

By David Danelski | October 3, 2023 | Social Science / Education, Science / Technology, University
flames from fuel injector

Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel 

UC Riverside chemical engineers have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current. Since it doesn’t react to flames and cannot start accidental fires during storage or transport, it is a “safe” liquid fuel.

By Jules Bernstein | September 28, 2023 | Science / Technology
Man in hazmat suit fighting COVID

Scientists uncover COVID’s weakness

New UC Riverside research has revealed COVID’s Achilles heel — its dependence on key human proteins for its replication — which can be used to prevent the virus from making people sick.

By Jules Bernstein | September 13, 2023 | Science / Technology
MacREU participants in lab

Microchip manufacturing fellowship’s decade of success

To some Inland Empire undergraduates, getting paid to learn microchip manufacturing, resume writing, and professional networking sounds like a dream. This year, UC Riverside is celebrating a decade of making this dream a reality.

By Jules Bernstein | August 17, 2023 | Science / Technology
VR headset

Virtual reality headsets are vulnerable to hackers

Headset hardware and virtual keyboard interfaces that immerse us into expanding worlds of virtual reality also create new opportunities for hackers, UCR computer scientists find studies to be presented at a national cyber security conference.

By David Danelski | August 8, 2023 | Business, Science / Technology
internet users

Google & ChatGPT have mixed results in medical info queries

A study led by University of California, Riverside, computer scientists found that queries for medical information on ChatGPT produced more objective information than Google, but the ChatGPT results can be outdated and lack the sources of its information.

By David Danelski | July 28, 2023 | Business, Science / Technology, Social Science / Education
coal plant

AI creates new environmental injustices, but there’s a fix

AI is creating inequitable environmental consequences in the form of water consumption to keep servers cool and air pollution from power plants that supply the electricity. But the tech companies could distribute their processing loads to avoid environmental injustices, UCR study finds.

By David Danelski | July 12, 2023 | Science / Technology
Forever chemical destruction process concept

Process turns harmful pollutants into harmless substances

UCR scientist discover chemical reaction pathways that destroy certain toxic water pollutants and render them into harmless substances.

By David Danelski | June 13, 2023 | Science / Technology
Grid of 2023 graduates

Celebrating UCR’s Class of 2023

Most of the students from the Class of 2023 started this journey in fall 2019 — the last quarter of pandemic-free existence. Just months after they stepped onto UC Riverside’s campus, they exchanged classroom numbers for Zoom links and ventured through their first year of higher education without traditional support...

By Malinn Loeung | May 31, 2023 | Students, University
Yujie Men and Bosen Jin

Biological cleanup discovered for certain “forever chemicals”

University of California, Riverside, chemical and environmental engineering scientists have identified two species of bacteria found in soil that break down a class of stubborn “forever chemicals,” giving hope for low-cost biological cleanup of industrial pollutants. These bacteria destroy a subgroup of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that have...

By David Danelski | May 31, 2023 | Science / Technology
heat in electronics

Breaking the heat barrier of computer innovation

As our computers and other electronic devices become faster and more powerful, they are coming closer to an undeniable physical limitation: heat generated by the electrons that carry information as they move through semiconductors. “Making heat is a fundamental limit that will prevent the further development of electronic devices. So...

By David Danelski | May 9, 2023 | Science / Technology
Google data center

AI programs consume large volumes of scarce water

UCR study the first time estimates the huge water footprint from running artificial intelligence queries that rely on the cloud computations done in racks of servers that must be kept cool in warehouse-sized data processing centers.

By David Danelski | April 28, 2023 | Science / Technology
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