If It Wasn’t for Jupiter, Venus Might Be Habitable Today
Study shows the destabilizing effect of the giant gas planet. Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit…
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Scientists Precisely Measure Total Amount of Matter & Dark Energy in the Entire Universe
UC Riverside-led team’s technique relied on determining the mass of galaxy clusters. A top goal in cosmology is to precisely measure the total amount of…
New Theory About the Nature of Dark Matter Explains Mysterious Deficiency in Galaxy Pair
UC Riverside-led study found self-interacting dark matter theory explains why two galaxies have less dark matter than others. A new theory about the nature of…
Surprising Number of Exoplanets Could Host Life – Some Stars Could Have As Many as 7 Habitable Planets in Orbit
Our solar system has one habitable planet — Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the…
Biologists Unravel Tangled Mystery of Plant Cell Growth – Insight Could Lead to Bigger Crops and Better Yields
When cells don’t divide into proper copies of themselves, living things fail to grow as they should. For the first time, scientists now understand how…
Innovative Virus Research May Save Wheat and Other Crops
University of California Riverside scientists have solved a 20-year-old genetics puzzle that could result in ways to protect wheat, barley, and other crops from a…
Testing Dark Matter Theory With Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way
UC Riverside physicists demonstrate ‘self-interacting dark matter’ model can be tested using astronomical observations of Draco and Fornax. A research team led by physicists at…
Ancestor of All Animals – Including Humans – Identified in Australian Fossils
A wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago is the earliest bilaterian. A team led by UC Riverside geologists has discovered the…
New Clues About Potential Life on Mars Revealed by Ancient Meteorite Site on Earth
Study seeks understanding of how Mars may have once hosted oceans and life. Scientists have devised new analytical tools to break down the enigmatic history…
Unusual Monster Galaxy That Existed 12 Billion Years Ago Discovered by Astronomers
XMM-2599 lived fast and died young, says University of California, Riverside-led international team. An international team of astronomers led by scientists at the University of…
Detection of Terahertz Electromagnetic Waves Could Revolutionize Electronics
University of California Riverside-led research has applications in ultrafast and spin-based nanoscale devices. A team of physicists has discovered an electrical detection method for terahertz…
Most Widely Used Cooking Oil Causes Genetic Changes in the Brain
America’s most widely consumed oil, soybean oil, linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice. New University of California Riverside research shows soybean oil not…
Possible On/Off Switch for Plant Growth Identified
Protein could be key to saving crops endangered by extreme weather or climate change. New research from UC Riverside identifies a protein that controls plant…
Vaping Lung Injury Symptoms Not New – Reported in Forums Online for at Least Seven Years
UC Riverside research used internet data mining to monitor health effects reported by electronic cigarette users over time. A team of researchers at the University…
In Search for Alien Life, Scientists Develop New Method to Detect Oxygen on Exoplanets
New Technique Could Speed Search for Life in Outer Space Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres that may accelerate…
Breakthrough in Development of Gamma-Ray Lasers – Useful in Medicine and Spacecraft Propulsion
Calculations by University of California Riverside’s Allen Mills predict metastable positronium bubbles in liquid helium. A physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has performed…
Magnetic Resonance Explained by Simple Experiment
University of California, Riverside, physics students design a table-top experiment for the classroom. Physicists at University of California, Riverside, have designed an experiment to explain…
New Way to Split and Sum Photons With Silicon Is Breakthrough for Quantum Computing, Solar Energy
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a way to produce a long-hypothesized…