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Outreach components include public lectures, parent nights, and telescope viewing opportunities

Experimental study done at UC Riverside and University of Washington on monolayer tungsten ditelluride could lead to more energy-efficient electronic devices

UC Riverside astronomers develop educational workshop converting astronomical phenomena into vibrations that can be felt rather than heard

The first production of an electron liquid at room temperature opens the way for new optoelectronic devices and basic physics studies

International research team, co-led by UC Riverside physicist, shows how pure graphene efficiently converts light into electricity

Sergio Garcia will do research during the winter quarter on a particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider

UC Riverside’s Nathaniel Gabor and colleague formulate a vision for the field in a perspective article

UC Riverside-led study deciphers key elements for the assembly of a large virus; understanding its formation could contain viruses’ spread

A team of UCR-led scientists get best measure yet of why star formation stopped in galaxy clusters in the early universe

NSF-funded research represents a new approach to the field of 'crystal engineering'

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

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

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...

Weeklong Summer Physics Teacher Academy at UC Riverside serves a large region in Southern California

RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — The University of California, Riverside, is hosting a free, public event on Saturday, May 19, aimed at the Spanish-speaking community. Children, teens, college students, and adults are invited to “Fiesta Familiar: Explorando La Ciencia Juntos,” presented entirely in Spanish, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, Flip Tanedo watched PBS, especially documentaries like NOVA, all the time. Now an expert on dark matter and an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, Tanedo will be featured on the May...