California’s worst wildfires are helping improve air quality prediction
New method measures and predicts air quality in areas with insufficient monitoring
Picosecond electron transfer in peptides can help energy technologies
Hydrogen bonds reshape peptides to move electrons a million times faster than previously known
Glass nanopore pulls DNA like spaghetti through a needle
The purely electrical technique captures cell-free DNA from the surface of a sample
Polymer film protects from electromagnetic radiation, signal interference
The breakthrough combines excellent electromagnetic shielding with ease of manufacture and electrical isolation
How to burst your bubble: broadening your social media horizons
A computer scientist explains how our online behavior drives us into echo chambers
Optical pre-processing makes computer vision more robust and energy efficient
Hybrid neural network can reconstruct Arabic or Japanese characters that it hasn’t seen before
Common pipe alloy can form cancer-causing chemical in drinking water
Water disinfectant reacts with chromium in iron pipes to form hexavalent chromium
Simple new testing method aims to improve time-release drugs
Glass tuning-fork-shaped tubing gives accurate, continuous measurements of drug dissolution
A robot that tells growers when to water crops is on the way
Researchers are creating an autonomous mobile robot to sample leaves and measure their water potential
SourceFinder software stalks malware in the wild
UC Riverside computer scientists develop tool to locate malware source code repositories
DNS cache poisoning ready for a comeback
Derandomizing the source port enables attacks that work on all layers of DNS caches
Switching magnetic polarity at record speed
Researchers develop way to use magnetic materials for data storage that is 50 times faster than previous attempts
UC Riverside receives $7.5 million to improve large-scale networked systems
New Department of Defense Center of Excellence will help develop secure, fully networked command, control, and communications infrastructures
Making mezcal is an art; science shows us why
Experiments show how bubbles indicate alcohol value
Improving treatment of spinal cord injuries
Osmotic therapy device reduces swelling to prevent secondary injuries in rats
Upcycling plastic waste toward sustainable energy storage
Simple process transforms PET plastic into a nanomaterial for energy storage
UC Riverside joins new NSF center for the preservation of biological systems
The grant is the campus’ first successful bid for an NSF Engineering Research Center
UC Riverside computer scientists receive grant to improve security of visual artificial intelligence
Amit Roy-Chowdhury leads project that will develop robust context-aware machine vision for computers