Chemical Discovery Gets Reluctant Seeds To Sprout – Could Help Increase Food Supply
Seeds that would otherwise lie dormant will spring to life with the aid of a new chemical discovered by a UC Riverside-led team. Plants have…
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Modern Activities Follow the Contours of Ancient Teotihuacan City
Lidar mapping study reveals vast landscape modifications that still influence construction and farming. A lidar mapping study using a cutting-edge aerial mapping technology shows ancient…
Astronomers Uncover Origin of Elusive Ultradiffuse Galaxies
UC Riverside astronomer and colleagues use simulations to reveal how the very faint dwarf galaxies are born. As their name suggests, ultradiffuse galaxies, or UDGs,…
Research Shows Common Insecticide Is Harmful to Bees in Any Amount
For the average bee, every little bit counts. A new UC Riverside study shows that a type of insecticide made for commercial plant nurseries is…
Dark Matter Halo Collapse: How a Supermassive Black Hole Originates
UC Riverside-led study points to a seed black hole produced by a dark matter halo collapse. Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with…
Engineers Develop a New Water Treatment Technology That Could Also Help Mars Explorers
A catalyst that destroys perchlorate in water could clean Martian soil. A team led by University of California Riverside engineers has developed a catalyst to remove…
Possible Explanation Discovered for Elusive Dark-Matter-Free Galaxies
UC Riverside-led study finds extreme tidal mass loss in dwarf galaxies formed in a simulation. A team led by astronomers at the University of California,…
Hidden Dark Forces: A New Dimension in the Quest to Understand Dark Matter
UC Riverside dark matter research program targets assumptions about particle physics. As its name suggests, dark matter — material which makes up about 85% of…
A Quantum Leap for Quantum Computing
UC Riverside will lead collaborative effort at developing scalable quantum computers. The University of California, Riverside, has won a University of California Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative…
Stopping the Airborne Spread of COVID-19: Nanofiber Filter Captures Almost 100% of Coronavirus Aerosols
A filter made from polymer nanothreads blew three kinds of commercial masks out of the water by capturing 99.9% of coronavirus aerosols in an experiment….
Carb-Eating Bacteria Under Viral Threat: Scientists Discover New Group of Viruses That Attack Bacteria in Our Guts
Scientists characterize previously unknown gut reactions. Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates — that’s the job of bacteria in our large intestines. UC Riverside…
Innovative Chemical “Nose” Sniffs Critical Differences in DNA Structures
Detection innovation could enhance drug development and cancer research. Small changes in the structure of DNA have been implicated in breast cancer and other diseases,…
450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature’s Bizarre Breathing Organs Uncovered
Trilobites Had a Leg Up on Breathing A new study has found the first evidence of sophisticated breathing organs in 450-million-year-old sea creatures. Contrary to…
We’re Surprisingly Similar to Earth’s First Animals – Humans Share Genes With Ancient Oceanic Creatures Missing Heads
The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, but pieces of them remain inside of us today, new research shows. According to…
Moiré Patterns Facilitate Discovery of Unexpected New Insulating Phases
UC Riverside-led study observed unexpected insulating phases by placing electrons on stacked monolayers of 2D semiconductors. Materials that have excess electrons are typically conductors. However,…
Scientists Solve Long-Standing Brain Mystery by a Whisker
UC Riverside mouse study shows where in the brain sensory input is transformed to movement. When we step on the car brake upon seeing a…
Childhood Diet Has Lifelong Impact – You Are What You Eat AND What You Ate as a Child
Effects of unhealthy food followed young mice into adulthood. Eating too much fat and sugar as a child can alter your microbiome for life, even…
Graduate Student’s BADASS Code Has Astronomical Benefits
An astro-statistics course University of California, Riverside, graduate student Remington O. Sexton took three years ago taught him techniques that led him to develop free,…