She’s a Grammy Award-winning international superstar, and now, Taylor Swift is also a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science.

UC Riverside environmental engineers have identified key chemical reactions that occur when ultraviolet light is used to destroy “forever chemical” pollutants in water, providing a roadmap for developing more effective cleanup technologies.

UC Riverside scientists have developed a way to identify where Earth’s biggest earthquakes are most likely to occur.

Scientists have finally observed a fleeting chemical reaction that forms the basis of urban smog. The insight could help improve air quality forecasting models.

New UC Riverside research shows a link between dollar store food quality and higher rates of obesity, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes.

Don’t assume an uptick in ant activity after setting out pesticide traps means the treatment failed. New UC Riverside research shows their behavior changes as chemicals make their way through a colony.

Being an elite athlete, at least as a mouse, does not shorten lifespan or limit how many children you can have.

Two UC Riverside computer scientists are joining federally funded projects that use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. Their work will focus on making quantum computing faster and more reliable and building smarter networks for sharing scientific data and research resources.

Hundreds of Venus-like planets could soon help determine why some worlds become sweltering greenhouse hellscapes, but to fully understand that, scientists first need to know how fast those planets are spinning.

NIH funds UCR-led research to develop new treatments for malaria and babesiosis

UCR scientists helped find a genetic switch that could shave years off avocado breeding by allowing researchers to identify one of a young tree’s most important traits long before it flowers.

As AI-generated fake videos become more problematic, UC Riverside computer scientists developed a tool that moves beyond simply identifying whether a video is fake. It also determines which AI system created it.

Thermal imaging could boost future gravitational-wave detectors

A $2.1 million grant will help a UCR synthetic biologist understand how cells stay stable despite stress.

A UC Riverside discovery makes it possible to destroy perchlorate pollution after it has been captured on ion-exchange resin beads, which could reduce the hazardous waste generated during drinking water treatment and allow for the beads to be reused.

A slowing Atlantic Ocean current will intensify powerful storms in California while reducing snowfall over Greenland.

A UCR engineer won a $1.6 million federal grant to improve scientists' ability to interpret brain activity and advance studies of neurological disorders such as epilepsy.

A UC Riverside scientist has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to develop a better tool to track avian flu on poultry farms, help prevent future outbreaks, and avoid egg shortages.

UC Riverside researchers have found evidence, for the first time, that desert mosses may host fungi inside their tissues. The finding offers a clue about how ancient life crawled from oceans onto dry land.

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In a new working paper, Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober, a former UCR graduate student who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the...