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Quantum electrons

UCR team creates “quantum composites” for various electrical and optical innovations

UCR team has shown in the laboratory the unique and practical function of newly created materials, which they called quantum composites, that may advance electrical, optical, and computer technologies.

By David Danelski | April 18, 2023 | Science / Technology
Big rig truck

UCR environmental engineers to referee California’s big rig truck emission regulation

They won’t be wearing vivid black and white striped shirts, but they could. University of California, Riverside, environmental engineers will soon serve as referees in California’s drive for big rig trucks to meet the state’s tailpipe emission standards. The referee program will provide testing services for vehicles potentially operating with...

By David Danelski | March 15, 2023 | Science / Technology, University
plastic waste

Turning plastic waste into a valuable soil additive

University of California, Riverside, scientists have moved a step closer to finding a use for the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste produced every year that often winds up clogging streams and rivers and polluting our oceans. In a recent study, Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz, a UCR assistant professor...

By David Danelski | January 5, 2023 | Science / Technology
Aerial view of dust storm overrunning the Imperial Valley, California. Salton Sea in upper left.

Salton Sea dust triggers lung inflammation

UC Riverside study has health implications for people living around California’s largest lake

By Iqbal Pittalwala | December 8, 2022 | Health
ventilator

The unintended consequences of using a ventilator

Breakthrough research addresses a long-standing question in pulmonary medicine about whether modern ventilators overstretch lung tissue. They do.

By Jules Bernstein | November 3, 2022 | Science / Technology
Plants growing in an electrolyzed medium containing acetate that replaces natural photosynthesis

Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine

Scientists are developing artificial photosynthesis to help make food production more energy-efficient here on Earth, and one day possibly on Mars

By Holly Ober | June 23, 2022 | Science / Technology
Illustration suggesting the computer vision system of a self-driving carr

Protecting computer vision from adversarial attacks

UC Riverside engineers are developing methods to keep self-driving cars and autonomous drones from being hacked

By Holly Ober | June 15, 2022 | Science / Technology
A woman sick on the couch with the flu

No more flu for you? Discovery blocks influenza virus’ replication in cells

SUMOylation inhibitor could lead to highly effective ways to treat the flu and other respiratory viruses

By Holly Ober | May 31, 2022 | Science / Technology
A person fills a glass with water from a faucet

Microbes can degrade the toughest PFAS

Under anaerobic conditions, common microbial communities can break the ultra-strong carbon-fluorine bond

By Holly Ober | May 23, 2022 | Science / Technology
A person pours water from a pitcher into a glass with a lemon slice in it

PFAS chemicals do not last forever

The use of sulfite and iodide under ultraviolet light can destroy PFAS in water in a few hours

By Holly Ober | May 19, 2022 | Science / Technology
Green algae growing in flasks in a laboratory.

Insights from algae genes unlock mysteries of plant growth and health

The discovery will improve biofuel production from algae and help develop heat-tolerant crops.

By Holly Ober | May 9, 2022 | Science / Technology
Chocolate drops covered with colorful candy nonpareils alongside pharmaceutical capsules also coated with the candy

Candy-coated pills could prevent pharmaceutical fraud

Colorful nonpareils can uniquely identify drug capsules and counterfeit fashions

By Holly Ober | May 6, 2022 | Science / Technology
An aerial view of a dairy farm in Southern California

How drones can help dairy farms manage methane emissions

Accurate atmospheric measurements directly over their farm can help farmers fight climate change

By Holly Ober | May 6, 2022 | Science / Technology
A figure from a scientific paper showing an automated approach to detecting manipulated facial expressions in videos

New method detects deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

Two-pronged technique detects manipulated facial expressions and identity swaps

By Holly Ober | May 3, 2022 | Science / Technology
Sea anemones form a symbiotic relationship with algae

Discovery about coral-algal symbiosis could help coral reefs recover after bleaching events

Algae’s ability to establish symbiosis in coral without photosynthesis could help fight coral bleaching

By Holly Ober | May 2, 2022 | Science / Technology
Turmeric roots and powder

Turmeric compound helps grow engineered blood vessels and tissues

Magnetic hydrogels embedded with curcumin-coated nanoparticles promote the secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor

By Holly Ober | April 5, 2022 | Science / Technology
Middle school girls watch a robot they made at a UC Riverside summer robotics camp

UC Riverside program for high school students aims to diversify STEM workforce

Underrepresented students will participate in carefully designed summer research and educational activities at UC Riverside

By Holly Ober | March 22, 2022 | Science / Technology
Emissions coming from factory chimneys

Fighting climate change with carbon capture and utilization technologies

Two UC Riverside experts explain how carbon capture and utilization technologies work, and what needs to improve for them to deliver on their promise

By Holly Ober | March 8, 2022 | Science / Technology
A cluster of amethyst crystals

Time crystals leave the lab

Time crystals that persist indefinitely at room temperature could have applications in precision timekeeping

By Holly Ober | February 14, 2022 | Science / Technology
A person uses a tablet computer to shop online while drinking a cup of coffee

Like peanut butter? This algorithm has a hunch as to what you'll buy next

A new technique can incorporate customer behavior into recommendation algorithms

By Holly Ober | February 2, 2022 | Science / Technology
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