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Eurosemillas will test some of UCR’s avocado scion and advanced rootstock selections on other continents

Just call him Professor Guinea Pig. Adapting to remote learning this quarter, Professor Rich Cardullo is performing all the experiments for his human physiology laboratory course — on himself. Picture a video in which your professor puts electrodes on his thighs and has a teaching assistant hit his knees, so...

In the midst of the pandemic, faculty mentored research projects are being supported through CAMP.

Research supported by five-year NIH grant may have relevance for COVID-19 patients

Vegetation changes can outweigh climate change in rangeland water budgets

The Paleo-Agulhas Plain had diverse, verdant ecosystems and abundant game

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-led study identifies role played by an immune signaling molecule in regulating memory function in the normal and injured brain

First survey of California’s bees in 50 years will look for effects of habitat destruction

One of humanity’s oldest creations is the most powerful weapon against the coronavirus

UC Riverside physicists demonstrate “self-interacting dark matter” model can be tested using astronomical observations of Draco and Fornax

Physicists’ discovery could lead to a new family of materials for robust qubits in quantum computing

The daily 1 p.m. Zoom call has become a lifeline for a team of UC Riverside students and their project scientist. Sometimes the call focuses on data, driven by the greenhouse emissions research they are conducting for Francesca Hopkins, assistant professor of climate change and sustainability. Other times, they talk...

Phytochrome foci have different behaviors at different temperatures and types of light

A wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago is the earliest bilaterian

Domestication yielded bigger crops often at the expense of plant microbiomes

UC Riverside will lead collaborative effort at developing scalable quantum computers

Just like us, the humble sweat bee has a daily routine

UC Riverside-led rat study finds an immune receptor in the hippocampus is responsible for the onset of the disease after brain injuries

UC Riverside study shows that without adequate sugar, a bumblebee queen’s fat body, which functions like a human liver, does not correctly produce enzymes required for healthy metabolism and detoxification from pesticides.