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Jing Shi standing in front of white board

Advancing antiferromagnetic spintronics for next-gen memory and computing

UC Riverside receives $4M from UC National Laboratory Fees Research Program

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 12, 2025 | Science / Technology
Students disassemble an instrument

New technology enhances gravitational-wave detection

Instrument developed at UC Riverside will help answer fundamental questions in physics and cosmology

By Iqbal Pittalwala | February 14, 2025 | Science / Technology
LIGO Livingston

New diagnostic tool will help LIGO hunt gravitational waves

Machine learning tool developed by UCR researchers will help answer fundamental questions about the universe

By Iqbal Pittalwala | January 30, 2025 | Science / Technology
GD-1 stellar stream and Milky Way

Physicists explain a stellar stream’s distinctive features

Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by self-interacting dark matter subhalo

By Iqbal Pittalwala | January 6, 2025 | Science / Technology

Unconventional interface superconductor could benefit quantum computing

New material developed by UC Riverside-led team offers promise for developing more scalable and reliable quantum computing components

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 23, 2024 | Science / Technology
Path of the Lyman alpha forest sightline

New astrophysics research supports the existence of an unknown influence

UC Riverside astrophysicists measured distribution of matter in the universe using neutral hydrogen

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 26, 2024 | Science / Technology

With spin centers, quantum computing takes a step forward

New devices could help find more efficient ways of storing and transferring information

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 11, 2024 | Science / Technology
Big data connection technology

Making ferromagnets ready for ultra-fast communication and computation technology

UC Riverside-led research has potential to unlock terahertz processing power

By Iqbal Pittalwala | June 13, 2024 | Science / Technology
JWST-ER1g

Physicists solve puzzle about ancient galaxy found by Webb telescope

UC Riverside study offers an explanation for dark matter distribution in a massive quiescent galaxy

By Iqbal Pittalwala | April 12, 2024 | Science / Technology
Vivek Aji and Nathaniel Gabor

New center positions UC Riverside as a leader in quantum vibronics

QuVet is funded by a $7.5M grant from the Department of Defense

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 22, 2024 | Science / Technology
Coronavirus

How the SARS-CoV-2 virus acquires its spherical shape

UC Riverside-led study findings can help tackle other pathogenic coronaviruses

By Iqbal Pittalwala | February 28, 2024 | Science / Technology
Frontera

Supercomputer enables illustration of large-scale structure of universe

UC Riverside physicist helped develop PRIYA, a new cosmological simulation model

By Iqbal Pittalwala | December 20, 2023 | Science / Technology
A young student uses virtual reality

Bringing virtual reality to nuclear and particle physics

VR tool developed by UC Riverside graduate student promises to serve an important purpose in education and research

By Iqbal Pittalwala | December 14, 2023 | Science / Technology
Gravitational len system

New dark matter theory explains two puzzles in astrophysics

Dark matter may be more vibrant than previously thought, UC Riverside study reports

By Iqbal Pittalwala | December 6, 2023 | Science / Technology
Artistic representation of the spiral barred galaxy ceers-2112

Milky Way-like galaxy found in the early universe

Research team, including a UC Riverside astronomer, made the discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope

By Iqbal Pittalwala | November 9, 2023 | Science / Technology
Barry Barish

UCR physicist awarded National Medal of Science

Barry Barish received nation’s highest honor for science during a ceremony at the White House

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 24, 2023 | Science / Technology
Electron flow

Electrons take flight at the nanoscale

Visualizing electron flow motivates new devices inspired by airplane wings

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 19, 2023 | Science / Technology

Coronavirus formation is successfully modeled

UC Riverside study could inform the design of effective drugs to fight SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 3, 2022 | Science / Technology, Health

Why are dark matter halos of ultra-diffuse galaxies so … odd?

A UC Riverside physicist explains

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 12, 2022 | Science / Technology

Unraveling a mystery surrounding cosmic matter

UC Riverside physicist and colleague invoke the cosmological collider to explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates the universe

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 8, 2022 | Science / Technology
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