Alaska's Arctic rivers have a big, orange problem. Excessive amounts of iron are getting into the water and it's killing insects and fish. UCR biogeochemist Tim Lyons was part of a crew that figured out exactly how this is happening, and how to predict where it'll happen next.
UCR psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and her collaborator Harry Reis at the University of Rochester argue feeling loved comes from being truly known — built through radical curiosity, vulnerable sharing and their “sea-saw” model of back-and-forth conversation.
UCR research chemist Kerry Hanson said sunscreens in the U.S. aren't as varied - and arguably not as effective as those in Europe and Asia. That’s because the U.S. FDA regulates sunscreens as a drug and not a cosmetic, meaning stricter rules.
Rachel Wu, a psychology researcher in CHASS, speaks to the rush of pleasure competence brings, in a Vogue magazine article that speaks to the power of mastering new things.
UCR's Fabian Klenner proposes a statistics-based method of searching for extraterrestrial life that is compatible with current technology and space missions.
Scott Pegan, a professor of biomedical sciences at the UC Riverside School of Medicine, said that the Andes strain of hantavirus is not in the same category as measles or SARS-CoV-2 because it is not as contagious, nor is it considered airborne.
According to a new UCR study from UCR's Sushmita Arumugam Amogh and Ysabel Giraldo in the Department of Entomology, fruit flies not only survive in hypergravity conditions, they manage to thrive and reproduce, too.
About the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, Scott Pegan in UCR's School of Medicine says, “If they weren’t on a cruise ship in a small container, then it wouldn’t have supported itself in spreading.”