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Nobel Laureate Barry Barish joins UC Riverside faculty

Physicist, whose contributions enabled the first observation of gravitational waves, is the university’s second Nobel Prize winner

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 27, 2018 | Science / Technology

Professor receives grant to study how fish hunt

NSF grant will support research on how fish coordinate different body parts to catch prey

By Sarah Nightingale | August 24, 2018 | Science / Technology

Getting high on worms

UC Riverside researchers show that in parasitic worm infection both the host and the worm produce cannabis-like molecules

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 22, 2018 | Science / Technology
Planet Earth, from space.

Early opaque universe linked to galaxy scarcity

Team led by UC Riverside astronomer George Becker used the Subaru telescope to make the discovery

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 14, 2018 | Science / Technology

Scientists honored by American Geophysical Union

Marilyn Fogel and Timothy Lyons will be honored as new fellows during December meeting

By Sarah Nightingale | August 9, 2018 | Science / Technology

Omega centauri unlikely to harbor life

Close encounters between stars in the Milky Way’s largest globular cluster leave little room for habitable planetary systems

By Sarah Nightingale | August 9, 2018 | Science / Technology
a photo of a pea plant that is native to California.

Top-performing soil microbes could be key to sustainable agriculture

UCR research will help agronomists breed plants that attract their own growth-promoting microbes

By Sarah Nightingale | August 7, 2018 | Science / Technology
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Researchers to Target Mosquito Egg Production to Curtail Disease

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have received a five-year grant of $2.44 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, to investigate the role hormones play in the female mosquito’s ability to use human blood for egg production. Vector mosquitoes need...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 13, 2018 | Health, Science / Technology

In search of dark matter

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter — constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth. Dark matter — nonluminous material...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 12, 2018 | Science / Technology

Nobel Prize winner to join UC Riverside faculty

UCR alumnus and renowned scholar Richard Schrock will share pioneering science with faculty and students

By Sarah Nightingale | July 2, 2018 | Science / Technology
women coding

New data science major promotes diversity in high-tech

Program will build new educational pathways in computing or technology for students, especially women, who otherwise would not study these subjects in college

By Holly Ober | June 28, 2018 | Science / Technology
Planet Earth, from space.

UCR team among scientists developing guidebook for finding life beyond earth

Major series of review articles outlines past, present, and future of searching for life on other planets

By Sarah Nightingale | June 25, 2018 | Science / Technology

Chemist receives Department of Energy award

Early Career Research Program award will support Ming Lee Tang’s research on developing hybrid organic-inorganic materials

By Sarah Nightingale | June 22, 2018 | Science / Technology
A photo of fossils

Two new creatures discovered from dawn of animal life

Names of recently discovered Ediacaran era fossil animals honor President Barack Obama and Sir David Attenborough

By Sarah Nightingale | June 18, 2018 | Science / Technology
Illustration of scorpion and spider fighting

Scorpions outdo spiders as scary creatures

Although spider fear is one of the most common and well-studied phobias, UCR-led study shows people are more afraid of scorpions

By Sarah Nightingale | June 13, 2018 | Science / Technology
Photo of bumble bee

Environmental threats put bumblebee queens under pressure

Insecticide exposure and declining floral diversity are jeopardizing key pollinator group

By Sarah Nightingale | June 13, 2018 | Science / Technology

Neuroscientist receives Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in neuroscience

Hongdian Yang is UC Riverside’s first recipient of the prestigious fellowship

By Iqbal Pittalwala | June 6, 2018 | Science / Technology
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Ten UC Riverside professors receive NSF CAREER awards

The awards support early career leaders in research and education

By Holly Ober | June 1, 2018 | Science / Technology
An artist’s illustration of a potentially habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet in a distant solar system. NASA GSFC: Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold

Distant moons may harbor life

UCR researchers have identified 121 giant planets that may have habitable moons

By Sarah Nightingale | May 30, 2018 | Science / Technology
Acyrthosiphon pisum

How do insects survive on a sugary diet?

Study offers clues to how aphids capitalize on relationship with beneficial bacteria through changes in gene expression linked to DNA methylation

By Sarah Nightingale | May 24, 2018 | Science / Technology
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