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Platform developed at UCR reinvents the webinar

Online webinar platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams have enabled public discourse at an unprecedented scale. But when hundreds of people join a meeting, the flow of feedback—often reduced to rapid-fire chat messages—becomes chaotic and overwhelming. Kevin Esterling, a public policy and political science professor at UC Riverside...

By David Danelski | April 28, 2025 | Science / Technology, Social Science / Education
Desert flowers

Invasive weed threatens Southern California’s deserts 

Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan mustard. UC Riverside research shows its spread is disrupting biodiversity and reducing the desert’s ability to recover from extreme climate swings.

By Jules Bernstein | April 23, 2025 | Science / Technology
Vitamin B1

 Scientists finally confirm vitamin B1 hypothesis from 1958

Chemists have confirmed a 67-year-old theory about vitamin B1 by stabilizing a reactive molecule in water — a feat long thought impossible.

By Jules Bernstein | April 21, 2025 | Science / Technology
Stem cells

DNA organization offers clues for advancing stem cell therapy

UC Riverside-led study could help advance treatments for injuries, aging, and diseases

By Iqbal Pittalwala | April 16, 2025 | Science / Technology
LA freeway traffic

Study links traffic speed to dirty air

Despite modern cars generally being cleaner and more fuel efficient, a University of California, Riverside study shows that higher speed limits can make city air dirtier.

By Jules Bernstein | April 15, 2025 | Science / Technology
broomrape parasitic plant

Triggering parasitic plant ‘suicide’ to help farmers

Parasitic weeds are ruthless freeloaders, stealing nutrients from crops and devastating harvests. But what if farmers could trick these invaders into self-destructing? Scientists at UC Riverside think they’ve found a way.

By Jules Bernstein | March 20, 2025 | Science / Technology
Vibration directions or polarization of the radiation

The universe’s baby pictures just got clearer

UCR physicist a key member of international collaboration that produced the images

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 18, 2025 | Science / Technology
Hycean world

Signs of alien life may be hiding in these gases

UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials.

By Jules Bernstein | March 13, 2025 | Science / Technology
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
megalodon eating whale

A longer, sleeker super predator: Megalodon’s true form

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale. The study team, which included researchers from...

By Jules Bernstein | March 9, 2025 | Science / Technology
Mosquito repellent

Enhancing mosquito repellent effectiveness

Two NIH grants to UC Riverside support a machine learning approach to identify insect repellents

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 5, 2025 | Science / Technology
Shaolei Ren gives his TED talk

Professor’s TED Talk warns of AI’s hidden water costs 

While artificial intelligence, or AI, is transforming industries, its environmental impact is often overlooked. Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, took to a TED Talk stage last fall in Vienna, Austria, to discuss a hidden consequence of AI’s rapid expansion. In his talk...

By David Danelski | March 5, 2025 | Science / Technology
Wayne Miller & Georgios Karavalakis

UCR and U of Michigan launch hydrogen-engine alliance

Officials at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), the University of Michigan, and several industry partners launch of the Hydrogen Engine Alliance of North America (H2EA-NA) to promote hydrogen as a viable alternative fuel.

By David Danelski | February 27, 2025 | Science / Technology, Business, University
manzanita flowers

New manzanita species discovered, already at risk

A new species of native California shrub famous for its twisted branches and wildfire resilience has been discovered on the central coast, but its survival is already threatened by urban development that could destroy its fragile population.

By Jules Bernstein | February 24, 2025 | Science / Technology
Bees in a hive

Beehive sensors offer hope in saving honeybee colonies

A UC Riverside computer science team has developed a sensor-based technology that could revolutionize commercial beekeeping by reducing colony losses and lowering labor costs. Called the Electronic Bee-Veterinarian, or EBV, the technology uses low-cost heat sensors and forecasting models to predict when hive temperatures may reach dangerous levels. The system...

By David Danelski | February 21, 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
debris flow damage in Los Angeles

Perfect storm: megafires set the stage for debris flows

Andrew Gray, an associate professor of watershed hydrology at UCR, weighs in on the threats to life and infrastructure posed by fast-moving debris flows, and how residents can best respond.

By Jules Bernstein | February 13, 2025 | Science / Technology
egg shortages

Q&A: Soaring egg prices

UCR experts discuss the connection to the bird flu outbreak and what to expect

By David Danelski | February 13, 2025 | Business, Experts, Science / Technology

Romance at a hackathon

It all started when computer science majors Siena Ha and Nate Brennan arrived late to UC Riverside’s Highlander Orientation in the summer of 2018. They quietly walked into Bourns Hall minutes apart, taking seats in the back to minimize the disruption and finding themselves sitting beside each other. “It was...

By Malinn Loeung | February 12, 2025 | Students, Science / Technology
Dairy cattle at Cornell

Q&A: The spread of the bird flu virus

In a question and answer format, UC Riverside public policy professor Richard Carpiano and medical school professor Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs to discuss the policy response and medical issues concerning the bird flu threat.

By David Danelski and Iqbal Pittalwala | February 12, 2025 | Experts, Science / Technology, Social Science / Education, Health
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