
A possible end to ‘forever’ chemicals
Excess electrons could help break the strong chemical bonds in products that contaminate water supplies

Can I mix those chemicals? There’s an app for that!
New technology can find the safest way to store and dispose of reactive chemicals

Clearing the air (inside your car)
UC Riverside research can improve car cabin air quality and help you choose your next car
Making higher-energy light to fight cancer
Researchers use nontoxic silicon nanocrystals to convert low-energy photons into high-energy ones, bringing scientists closer to developing photodynamic treatments for cancer

Earthquakes, chickens, and bugs, oh my!
New big data algorithms improve earthquake detection; monitor livestock health and agricultural pests

Going with the floe: Sea ice movements trace dynamics transforming the new Arctic
Image processing algorithms on satellite images show how sea ice drift affects freshwater flux in Arctic Ocean currents

Precisely poking cells en masse to cure cancer
Device can mass-produce engineered cells at lower cost, a tipping point for emerging lifesaving therapies

Lasers can weld ceramics without a furnace
Ultrafast pulsed lasers fuse ceramics under ambient conditions and use less than 50 watts of power

When disaster strikes, a search website for first responders will save lives
Researchers are building a tool that searches real-time text, photo, and video from many sources to help responders allocate resources

New bio-inspired technology is poised to disrupt the composites industry
The patented lightweight, impact-resistant technology could change the way we play sports, and improve wind-farm productivity and automotive fuel economy

Supercomputing improves biomass fuel conversion
Researchers combine supercomputing with nano-imaging to reveal how to efficiently break down plant biomass and transform it into transportation fuels

Publishing company Wiley acquires zyBooks
The web-based, interactive textbook replacements were invented by a UC Riverside computer scientist and commercialized by the startup he co-founded, Zyante Inc

This deep neural network fights deepfakes
Artificial intelligence to accurately detect altered photos is getting smarter