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Climate resilient, nutritious long beans are unfortunately susceptible to aphids and nematodes. By creating four new pest-resistant varieties of the beans, scientists aim to reduce farmers’ reliance on pesticides.
Viji Santhakumar is the first recipient on campus of the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
UC Riverside astrophysicists measured distribution of matter in the universe using neutral hydrogen
California should take urgent and bold measures to adapt its $59 billion agriculture sector to climate change as the amount of water available for crops declines, according to a collaborative report by University of California faculty from four campuses. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the...
New research shows that California’s Central Valley, known as America’s breadbasket, gets as much as half of its groundwater from the Sierra Nevadas. This is significant for a farming region that, in some parts, relies almost entirely on groundwater for irrigation.
A UC Riverside environmental engineering team has discovered that specific bacterial species can cleave the strong fluorine-to-carbon bond certain kinds of “forever chemical" water pollutants, offering promise for low-cost treatments of contaminated drinking water.
Lice have been found feeding on the skin and blood of free-range chickens, which are infected at much higher rates than caged flocks.
New devices could help find more efficient ways of storing and transferring information
Native plants and non-native crops do not fare well in proximity to one another, attracting pests that spread diseases in both directions, according to two new UC Riverside studies.
UC Riverside professor Shaolei Ren remotely shared his research findings about the the environmental consequences of increasing AI processing demands to a United Nations committee meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.
A UC Riverside paper has opened the door to understanding more about early life on Earth, and to framing the search for life beyond this planet.
Representing the United States, UCR professor Mihri Ozkan I will provide recommendations to a United Nations panel for emerging research and strategies needed to shape the future of direct air carbon capture technology and "its role in our collective quest for a carbon-neutral society."
Unchecked carbon emissions will force tropical rains to shift northward in the coming decades, which would profoundly impact agriculture and economies near the Earth's equator, a new UCR study predicts.
If aliens modified a planet in their solar system to make it warmer, we’d be able to tell. A new UC Riverside study identifies the artificial greenhouse gases that would be giveaways of a terraformed planet.
A new UC Riverside study shows soot from large wildfires in California traps sunlight, making days warmer and drier than they ought to be. Many studies look at the effect of climate change on wildfires. However, this study sought to understand the reverse — whether large fires are also changing...
A UC Riverside study shows how extreme heat in Earth’s past caused the exchange of waters from the surface to the deep ocean to decline. A similar slowdown, which would cause climate chaos, will happen at the end of this century if carbon emissions do not abate.
UC Riverside-led research has potential to unlock terahertz processing power
Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface brightness. How this galaxy originated remains unclear. “Since its discovery in 2016, there have been many attempts to reproduce...
Advanced technologies enable the controlled release of medicine to specific cells in the body. Scientists argue these same technologies must be applied to agriculture if growers are to meet increasing global food demands.
The sharks we know today as the open ocean’s top predators evolved from stubby bottom dwellers during a dramatic episode of global warming millions of years ago. A massive outpouring of volcanic lava about 93 million years ago sent carbon dioxide levels soaring, creating a greenhouse climate that pushed ocean...
